Toxic culture and leadership - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Cymulate

1. The CEO tends to make decisions on a whim. It's not uncommon to have an impromptu all hands where he has suddenly decided to make a drastic change to a team or to management without a plan of action on what will happen to that team or next steps moving forward. This results in months of struggle while those effected try to manage the changes without direction. This can be changes to bonus structure, firing of managers, restructuring of teams, changes to the product, etc. 2. If you aren't an Israeli employee it can be VERY difficult to get promoted or make any career path changes. This is especially true for U.S. employees. Cymulate is an Israeli company. They tend to promote Israeli friends and colleagues. U.S. employees often feel like they are hired more out of the necessity to work with U.S. customers rather than because they are wanted. 3. Management shows clear favoritism to some employees while showing negativity to others. Sales is especially bad in this regard with obvious favoritism shown to certain sales people. In one instance this favoritism appeared to be the direct result of an inappropriate relationship the managers was having with one of their direct reports. 4. Suggestions will be largely ignored by leadership. While I don't think this problem is unique to Cymulate, I do think it's worth mentioning. Your suggestions for improving the product (based on customer feedback) will be ignored and even (in my experience) laughed at and invalidated - this is despite having customer testimonials that this is what they'd like to see. 5. It's all about the money for Cymulate. Seeing the way management treated customers was hard to watch. If you are a customer looking to purchase Cymulate, make sure you look over your contract very carefully and be sure to ask other customers what they are paying for similar subscriptions. 6. You will report to multiple managers (and 1 sales person) who will all be trying to micro manage everything you do. 7. Work life balance doesn't exist. You will be expected to work when they want you to. This is often a direct result of time zone or work-week differences between Israel and the U.S.. It is not uncommon to be asked to join weekend calls or to have a manager in Israel schedule a call with you at 5am or earlier (and in some cases much later). 8. Reporting a coworker's or manager's behavior or actions to HR goes nowhere. While HR will tell you that they are concerned, my experience is that nothing will change. Maybe one day this will change. In summary: At Cymulate, it's their way or the highway. As a U.S. employee, you will have little to no influence on what happens or the Cymulate journey. It feels more like being on a runaway train with no clear direction other than to bring in more money for the company.