Death Spiral - Recensione dipendente - Senior Consultant presso GridGain

This really is a comical firm - a group of amateurs pretending to run a business. As one of my fellow leavers has said, the Dunning-Kruger Effect is heavily at play. There is a substantial number of semi-literate and borderline clueless individuals occupying senior roles. Those individuals have since hired their similarly unskilled friends from previous jobs, in a desperate cycle of racing to the intellectual bottom. Far too many of the senior people have little or no understanding of what the product is, what its use-cases are, what the competition is, and what customers are willing to pay for it. Instead they spout buzzword nonsense about functionality and capabilities that the field engineering team have proven time and again does not work properly. The CEO is totally absent, and is not involved in any way in the running of the company. In the near two years I spent there, I heard him speak twice. Morale is at an all-time low, and so staff attrition has become disastrous. In the first 7 months of 2018, over 50% of the sales engineering and services team has left, including two Director/VP level staff. More will leave soon. Many of the leavers have not been replaced, because the company can no longer afford to hire. People leave and are simply never mentioned again. Managers leave and no announcement is made to their confused, left-behind staff. If this reminds you of the Soviet Union, it should. They have been liquidated. The company set ridiculously high revenue targets for the year, and is nowhere near achieving them. It remains to be seen whether investors will keep it afloat for another 12 months after that. As also mentioned, this company engages in dubious and borderline unethical business practices. Some examples * Creating fake LinkedIn profiles to connect to marketing bots to spam potential customers * Requiring employees to add company reviews to Glassdoor by putting it in their quarterly objectives. * Purchasing dubious e-mail lists Nobody should work at this firm, unless they're utterly desperate, and even then think twice.