Executive Vision and Leadership Sorely Needed - Anonymous employee MySpace Employee Review

2.0
Apr 26, 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people, working with Engineering is a pleasure.

Cons

Product Vision is not clear. Product Management overall is extremely weak and lacking ownership. They struggle with vary basic tasks such as defining the behavior of their products. If we can't get a well thought out requirements document, how are we supposed to deliver solid product? Priorities across the company are not consistent and often compete. It's clear our exec team is not functioning as a team. As a result, development teams are left to deal with the chaos. Cronyism galore - the new executive team brought too many of their friends on board, often in roles that are not needed or that add a distasteful layer of bureaucracy which kills productivity. The company needs to be more agile, not bogged down by people who have no idea what they are talking about and little incentive to actually perform their jobs adequately. Accountability - where is it? How many times can an individual fail to deliver and not reap the ramifications. This especially holds true for the cronies. Incentive based rewards - how about taking care of the developments teams who are asked to work evenings and weekends to deliver product? This should start by making Product Manager work evenings and weekends to deliver a proper spec.

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