my experience - Recensione dipendente - Junior Data Analyst presso Polymatica

Most of the team in place including management are some of brightest, most capable and nicest people I have worked with in my 12 year career. The proposition is unique. The software is a true technological breakthrough and solves a major problem in the market. Strategic thinking is very rarely boxed in by the usual 'that's the way I have always done it'. It's fascinating to hear understand how big brands aren't as close to their customers as you would think they are. As a scale up you get a tremendous amount of opportunities to influence the direction of the business. The CEO is global expert within customer data and the best leader I have ever seen. He listens, he always aspires to think the best of people (sometimes to detriment of business results), coaches his team, has very little ego - but when tough decisions need to be made, he acts. We are at the cusp of a great market and technological change - and are leading a lot of the best practice.

Mistakes were made with early hires. Good people, but had large company backgrounds and couldn't adapt to the new context. The strategy has zigzagged over the last 6 months but I think we are now on a firm course. Some of the technological and devops processes need to be improved. More work needs to be done on creating a one company culture.

The product itself is great and seems to be able to do a ton.

Management (CXO) was 1 person in London 'managing' remotely. She hired a team of wonderful designers to redesign the product but was not competent enough to understand basic UX processes and how to handle the team. The manager was more of a totalitarian dictator which made the team always feel stressed. The manager changed her opinion every day and communicated in a very unprofessional way. Daily conversations in the office were about how terrible is management than how to better the product. Collaboration between departments was prohibited. You couldn't trust what the manager says at it changed day-to-day. Waiting for feedback became a skill everyone learned. Creativity was stiffled and colaboration between team mebers that sit in the same room were prohibited and if management heard that there was collaboration going on, she feared that control over processes would be taken away from her. Everyone was promised permanent contracts and equipment but that never came. Instead, everyone was working with month-by-month freelance contracts that could (and were) terminated at any moment for no apparent reason.