Pathetic Management and zero vision - Project Manager Diagnal Employee Review

1.0
Nov 12, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Reasonable pay - Not the best in industry. But definitely reasonable. NB: Paying salary doesn't mean that we are expected to work 24 hrs a day with zero planning and absolute ambiquity

Cons

1. No vision from management especially the CEO is a mess. He don't even have an idea on how to run a single medium size project. Wondering how the company is surviving. Only reason I can see is the dedicated workforce. 2. Micro management at its best. Employees will be scrutinized even if we are away for 1 hr due to any emergency. Doesn't matter how well we complete the assigned tasks 3. Excessive workload. Company is running multi million dollar projects with 2 or 3 engineers. Employees will have to get prior permission to take off during weekends. 4. No career development - The management doesn't even know the meaning of the term career development. There is a zero opportunity for career development especially if you are on a mid senior level. 5. Ambiguous roles and responsibilities - The JD in your offer letter is just hypothetical. There is no relation between the job offered and the job assigned 6. Ever changing priorities - The priorities are changing every now and then. 7. Zero planning - Planning is minimal or non realistic and is always based on some hypothetical assumptions with doesn't happen 100% of the times. Advice to the candidates: You can join the company only if you are willing to dedicate your entore life for the company. If you have a family or if you expect a work life balance, Diagnal is definitely not a place for you. CEO will give unrealistic promises and fancy positions to attract candidates from good companies. I was also fooled by these offers.

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Diagnal Response
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We understand that Diagnal may not be the right place for people who are not willing to work on complex projects - a few people may find the work environment challenging. We are however, a growing company that's working on very exciting and demanding projects. As we’ve grown as an org, we’ve put in improved structures, processes and learning paths to make it easier for everyone to get onboard, to manage their time better and to develop. We would also like to take this opportunity to address aspiring Diagnal future joiners to not be put off by this review. If you want to develop yourself to your full potential and want to learn more about the very dynamic video streaming industry then come meet with us and join the team.

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Cons

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Cons

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