It USED to be a good company to work for - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso eNom

* No sufficient parking in the company parking lot. There is a lottery on who gets the parking spots. * Lack of respect for employee privacy and confidentiality, including open discussion of individual employee's performance in hallways. * The CEO is a complete imbecile when it comes to organizational management and his decisions are un-done on regular basis but called "alignment". It's unfortunate that he cannot reflect on the bad decisions made. * The management style is fear , intimidation and backstabbing in which an apprehensive work environment has been created. Only people who can further this kind of management style are hired in upper management. * The whole work environment can only be described as HOSTILE as the constant layoffs and re-orgs have taken its toll and will never stop until all non conforming employees are gone. * The CEO is completely isolated from the rest of the company by a small inner circle of his "friends" whose agenda is to make sure only their ideas get heard and executed. * There is no transparency from upper management, but as always nothing can be kept secret and rumors spread like wildfire. * The Human Resource department is always on the side of the company and will never hear a concerned employees point of view or do anything about most issues. Any performance plan is designed to make sure the employee will fail. * Projects and products developed are many times setup as favors to friends of the CEO and the inner circle. These projects never contribute the bottom line but are always hailed as "BIG WINS". Anybody who questions these projects gets shunned as not being a team player. * Turnover in the last two years has been the highest in the company's history and the silly explanations from management is always that every exit has been under unique circumstances. * Outsourcing ( aka favors to friends ) is always favored as a solution to every problem instead of looking to the employees who have more experience in the industry. * More VPs and executives have been hired than engineers who actually can do real work to support the systems and products. * Product management is extremely poor ,under performing and there is no interaction between customers and product management. Projects are mostly comprised by specs that are not researched or understood and combined with arbitrary deadlines with no ground in reality. * Team moral is at the all time low but the CEO seems to think that everything is great as his inner circle will never tell the truth. * Employees have many great ideas but these ideas will never see the light of day as management prohibits any ideas to become projects in fear of imaginary costs. * Favoritism is rampant and friends of upper management are being promoted/hired and treated much better than the people that are performing. * Many employees are spending more time working on keeping their job than actually doing their job in fear of being laid off or managed out these days. * You cannot be promoted to upper management anymore as those positions are mostly filled by friends of the inner circle. Alternatively, those positions are filled with people who have more "experience", but as always it turns out that this is not true. * Company communication is extremely poor and the running joke "We will communicate better next time" has become the norm. * As stated by previous reviews of this company , the QA team is a joke and most of the other teams have to constantly compensate for their incompetence. * Employees input is never taken into consideration when it comes to company wide technical changes and changes are decided with the pretense that everybody will just go with it and be happy. * Endless delays and in-decisions by upper management when it comes to products and services are systematic and the company is always looking for some of the shelf silver bullet solution. This has led to products and services that are technically 6 years behind the rest of the industry. * Company parties are the most awkward interactions with upper management and employees. Upper management always isolates themselves and put up their fake smiles and a send a signal of being busy if a conversation get started with a normal employee. * Personal attacks in meetings are common and employees are in constant fear of being mocked in meetings. This has created an environment where only a few talk while the other are passive. * In meetings the behavior of many VPs is adolescent at best . Stupid jokes are more common than intelligent and productive communication. Time is always wasted. * Company personnel survey results are never published or shared in a meaningful way as there is fear of being transparent.