Going places. - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso CTO.ai

- (was) good culture - (had) reasonable benfits and support - (had) helpful seniors - Good tech stack and learning opportunities - CEO is very committed to his vision, and believes each of his decisions is best for the company - CEO is an amazing salesamen, and I mean that truely

- CEO is very committed to his vision, and has made bad calls like all CEOs do. However, many of the CEO's worst calls were repeatedly called out by multiple senior and director but the CEO ignored all well reasoned advice. This is his perogative as CEO, and warning others is my perogative. - Because of this, they lost most of their profit streams, hired too many people, double downed on an ineffectual product at the expense of their profitable services side, and then fired half the company. - All of the best people have left of their own accord as they realized the way everything was going - A lot of the culture is now gone as even more of their good employees have been fired - Underpaid relative to market value, and extremely low promotion and raise rates - CEO being an amazing salesman means that he is very good at cleaning up the company's image after bad decisions. Also very good at dealing with external criticism. - CEO believes wholeheartedly all the advice from Silicon Valley founders, and embraces a machavellian attitude as the best way forward. Often, that comes at direct expense of employees.

Company pivoted in Jan 2020 away from a service/revenue based business to all about the product. It's very much like an early stage startup and best suited to those that get excited about that. If we can get everything aligned this could be the next big thing! The Leadership team has some pedigree and definitely believes in the vision. New VP of Engineering is clearly here to get things going. The people in general are so so great, all levels. So amazing to see how they've supported everyone through various things, especially during COVID. It's clear that nothing is ever personal.

Lot's of changes in the past while including layoffs :( Shift from one type of business to another could have been smoother. Definitely figuring things out so need to have patience and be flexible. New VP Engineering, they are hiring for a few more people and some people have left so hoping the culture aligns better moving forward.