Such a shame - Anonymous employee Turn Employee Review

It is such a shame that as a vested employee (3+ years) i have to leave my feedback on Glassdoor. Turn in the last 2 years should end up a MBA study into how to ruin a company. Strategy - there is no defined strategy. Generally Turn will look into the Market place every few months, see what others are doing well, and then when it is too late try to copy it, and that too, badly. The people who defined the company and made it what is was initally which was a thought leader and actual innovater were all replaced by grey haired, high waistline, side parted ex corporate middle managers/execs. Unsuprisingly each one of these have been fired a few times over, but almost like a Mr Smith from the matrix, there is another duplicate. Startups are made by people and unforunately Turn ditched the people who made it what it was. Work-Life balance. There is "just do it" culture that comes down from the top. you do what you are told, you are micro managed, and because of management flaws, you end up discussing things all day that would take 20 minutes to do. Career progression - There are great career progression opportunities at Turn. Just make sure your manager like you. You won't be judged on anything else, the work that you have done, success achieved, all does not compare to "does your manager like you" HR - This is absolute failing in the company. We have HR people who do not represent the employees. They infact don't even interact with employees. Unsuprisingly they did however manage to promote each other. The fact there are so many reviews on GlassDoor suggests there seems to be an issue with employees being able to feedback to the company no? will anything be done? no. Personalities. This is a classic situation. You have the management - egotistical and only interested in anything above them. Empire builders without any regard to the company or the well-being of their staff. (in the majority, there are one or 2 decent ones). Managers just want the most people reporting to them - it seems to be a power trip. You have 3 types on employee - The credit takers. Sit, smile, take credit for others work and generally do well. The workers - stuck in day to day weeds and unable to see beyond the daily picture. Don't even realise what is happening because they are busy in their next fire fight The resigned - people waiting it out. No interest in progresing anything, will be able to defend any request to do work with a barage of questions that kills your will and desire to even ask them again. Culture - None. No startup feel to this company left. Forced attempt made in some cases to get this going but "happy hour is at 5pm" and then when you leave your desk at 5pm you get the snidey look from the manager. what's the point?