An opportunity to go from a total circus to a healthy company - Anonymous employee Siteimprove Employee Review

This is directed outgoing leadership (CEO Shane Paladin and his cronies) that just left: I have never worked in a nastier environment. Chaotic, ignorant, arrogant, rude, and poor results. Constant firings and musical chairs. Leaders didn't think twice about picking on people far down the ladder from them, directly, as in Slack messages ripping them. Utterly toxic. My colleagues and I felt nothing but dread every time we had to interact with them. So many of my colleagues could barely get out of bed they were so demoralized. When low morale was brought up, the conversation was actively shut down. At Siteimprove I’ve witnessed some of the worst management decisions I've ever seen, like laying off most of the Marketing team as a "reorg" and having zero plan for getting vital work done. Production sputtered to a near stop, and no one had a plan or communicated a plan. No leaders (VPs), no product marketing team, no designers, no writers, no project manager. Work is farmed out to agencies that do a terrible job (typos, bad grammar, bad design) and are paid handsomely. I highly doubt that the "reorg" saved any money. It certainly compromised the rebrand brand dozens of people worked so hard on as so many people who care about quality were let go or quit. Speaking of quitting, fabulous high-level people routinely quit with no notice because the environment was so toxic and so chaotic. Four VPs gone in less than a year, none replaced. Oh, and plenty of very credible rumors that women shouldn't be alone in a room with certain male leaders. I’m sure HR will respond to this post with some vapid, disingenuous claptrap. Pull your socks up and do your job.