Lost its way - Anonymous employee Canonical Employee Review

2.0
Dec 18, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Friendly and supportive team Lots of autonomy

Cons

The company has become hyper focused on implementing policies and changes in ways which have no clear goal or benefit. Often such processes are updated last minute with little to no effective communication. Product has no focus, segments are developed for 6-12 months before the next initiative starts and then the half baked product decays. Quality suffers. Internal processes mean people are stuck with busy work which again has no clear value for the effort put in. Little to no time to invest in personal development the more senior you get. Burnout culture is fast becoming a badge of honour internally, along with undermining your colleagues or other teams.

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Cons

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Pros

Met some interesting people, had some interesting conversations.

Cons

Was constantly hearing bad stories about upper management. I only experienced the CEO expressing minor annoyance and paranoia a couple of times. My line manager always seemed to be treading water, fixated on dev-ops ceremonies, and didn't respect the opinions of his peers. The guy who was the "expert" for my field practised management by spreadsheet and was completely out of his depth, always obsessing about his approach to the work and inflicting his opinion on everyone else. Spent too much time having to plan for travel or hear about everyone's travel plans. Wasted so much time in the company's ongoing recruitment drive which pushes most of the work of interviewing and filtering candidates onto regular employees.

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