Gross mismanagement that killed a promising start-up - Software Engineering Manager Hazelcast Employee Review

1.0
May 26, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work life balance is pretty good, but that's only because nobody really cares if you do your job or not. Might still be a good place for a junior developer to learn some complex distributed systems skills, but other than that would not recommend..

Cons

Completely directionless company that has been killed off by an inept and generic executive team that has recently been hired in the image of the CEO. These are jaded bay area execs that will jump to the next company to try their luck elsewhere. They have no sympathy with core customers or their use cases. Disastrous divide between engineering team in Europe and executive team in America. The once engineering led culture has been killed off. The entirety of the engineering leadership that was around since the start of the company has all left in the last few months. Many of the highly regarded product managers who helped build the company have also left. Every single leader that has left was not even offered an exit interview and the attrition rate is being covered up to the board.

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5.0
Mar 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The technology itself is great and used by many big-name customers in mission critical systems. The culture is very collegial and there is generally a lot of collaboration up and down and across the org chart. Employees have a fair amount of autonomy. People work hard but a balanced life is encouraged.

Cons

Frequent direction changes. It's a necessary function of the market the product serves and tech in general but at times it can be stressful.

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