Pros
- Fun, hip,up and coming company that is about to go IPO - Laidback styles allow employees and managers alike to go on their own ways to do stuff - Culture of friendliness among the staff Hootsuite Media is one of those start up companies that are about to launch their IPO. The culture is hip and fun, really suits a start-up company. If you are a hipster, you fit right in.
Cons
- Dysfunctional management with no sense of direction - No communications between departments - No support among from the various departments for projects and programs - Young inexperienced managers leading to wildly varying management styles - Canadian employees brought in to Singapore office has a strange tendency to dislike Singapore and thumb down their noses at the culture here in Asia which is strange considering this should be their main area of focus Hootsuite management does not seem to support the idea of training and retention. Furthermore, communications between departments are almost non-existent. One department does not know what the other department does even though they work on the same product. For a company that is now facing a lot of competition offering the same services at a more affordable price, the company is oddly not focusing their attention and resources to support the external Non-North American market. This is an example of too many cooks in the kitchen whereby too many people believe in their own opinion that their way is right and so steer their own agenda and resources into their own projects without coordinating and communicating with the overall company management.