Vantaggi
Decent people that work hard and willing to learn but just don’t get that opportunity to do so. Read why in the cons. I was asked to write a 5* review but decided to do an honest one unlike my colleagues. There was a moment that things were coming together , the leadership were directing us and I would say the VP people who has now left made a pretty substantial impact, probably I would see things change if the CEO didn’t get rid of the leadership team. I would say it’s been downhill from there.
Svantaggi
1. This is a failing business , a seed stage business that has over hired and undelivered. 2. Ask about the turn over of the leadership team. Enough said. 3. Ask about the general rate of leavers, you’ll find this high in comparison to companies at this stage and size. 4. CEO isn’t who you’d want to work with or direct the organization. There’s no sense of direction 5. Are you an engineer? No point applying , legacy tech stack and a CTO that hasn’t put in processes well enough, you’ll have an awful onboarding and an even more awful time here. The rate of engineers coming and going is huge, again, ask. You won’t learn a thing here and the expectation of work is just uncalled for because there isn’t process or leadership direction, you’ll be up on a 7am call on a weekend for a release every other week. You can imagine as an engineer how you’d feel if something you’re working on , the CEO not the CTO goes actually ‘I want this’ with no sense of appreciation of time it would take or process. To learn anything interview the CTO and ask him how he deals with the CEO. 6. A company that has rinsed and repeated their Commercial team , worrying as the commercial targets will never be hit and our bonuses ride on that , I’d be shocked if the business even looks to see past December honestly they clutch on to straws by government grants that they truly don’t deserve. If you have given them a grant please do your due diligence as there isn’t a lot in the business that is above board. 7. The Head of security awareness is a fake role. It’s to drive in candidates from enterprise and pitch to them. I know it’s shocking but I did say they don’t care about anyone. Ruthless sales tactics 8. Talking of Sales the CEO believes he’s the best sales leader in the world so commercially this whole business won’t thrive. Having fired a whole commercial team. 9. The CEO’s words ‘I like those who work on the weekend’. Zero boundaries. I’d assume he let go of the Chief Product Officer that joined less than 6 months ago because he actually set boundaries ? 10. If you’re looking for a new role no matter how desperate you are , don’t apply! If you’re in an interview process with OutThink probably best to not proceed.
