Pros
I watched this company grow at a very fast pace. It had great talent, vision, hungry leaders and the ability to execute sales acquisition consistently. That was a recipe for success and the funding rounds that followed validated it. The success quickly faded away year-by-year as the CEO had no real clue on how to run a multi-national company and desperately turned to hiring VP's and MD's from companies who did not understand the culture nor have alignment with the existing senior management team. Once he hired them he did not have the competency or courage to try and manage them.
Cons
The CEO became complacent in the last 2.5 years - there is some correlation here... once he and the founders quietly cashed out on their stock the company tumbled dramatically. Continuously preaching about the market size and opportunity is not going to hide the fact that you clearly checked-out some time ago and now you don't know what to do. The current culture is toxic throughout the entire company. In London they have more than halved their headcount - Toronto can't even close a single new business deal and LA is moving backwards. The Chinese operation needs a whole glassdoor review itself because nobody actually knows what they do and how much they contribute to the overall business but many errors were also made there that have been swept under the carpet. When is the CEO going to take responsibility for any of these errors? Why has he not learnt from his previous mistakes? every week a mixture of senior VP's and junior staff members are leaving. I don't foresee it stopping. The CEO has presented his life story maybe 30 times to the entire company hoping this will do something to change the culture and business trajectory - Not really sure what to say about that anymore as he has tried it so many times it's almost as if he is forgetting that he is doing it. I urge staff to stop being pressured into writing fake reviews on here to cover up the catastrophe of errors and mistakes made. If this company is to survive it needs complete new management and the CEO and founders must step aside.
