How to stifle innovation - Software Developer Lonely Planet Employee Review

1.0
Sep 28, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Lonely Planet is the best challenge ever - take a strong brand with a history of partnering people on the greatest adventures of their lives and make it work in the technological age. And of course the people who actually write, produce and distribute the content are without fail enthusiastic, intelligent and delightful.

Cons

For reasons that may forever be a mystery to me upper management seem to actively dislike software engineers. They have no interest in understanding the work that goes into great tech and demonstrated no trust in the people that build it. The company has had four CTOs in the last two years, the last three of which were fired because the reality of tech innovation they attempted didn't match the delusional expectations of management.

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5.0
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Cons

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1.0
Apr 20, 2026
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Pros

Talented developers with excellent skills.

Cons

Horrid leadership that has a very passive and non-caring approach to the overall structure of the team. Absolutely the worst product team leader I've met to date. Totally not there for the right reasons and talked about their life after work, what they did with their big paycheck, Across the development team there was a severe issue being too top heavy. There were way way too many cooks in the kitchen that were never ever on the same page an then they put the blame on all the worker bees.

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