Pros
*used to* look good on the surface, covering up all the deep-rooted underlying issues
Kontras
Ultimately, a company is its people - especially senior management, who sets the tone for what is valued and who to hire under them. If you don't believe in them, in a down time like now, you won't believe the company will turn around. This is why I have lost hope in Leanplum. 1. A senior leader running into the office and urging current employees to write positive reviews on Glassdoor because their "ex-coworkers are stabbing them in the back". (??? How about reflecting on these well thought-out, detailed reviews rather than jumping to the offense. Which, by the way, did NOT make current employees feel confident in your abilities.) 2. Senior management unable to enforce high standards. As an example, these literal words were said in a meeting: "We will just outsource the bugs. You guys are too smart to be fixing bugs." Given the mountainous backlog of bugs that has caused the only goal of the company to be reliability for over a year, engineers are "too smart" to fix bugs. It's ok to just let them sit there. Hmm. See how this will push people who are actually capable and give two cents about anything to leave, but keep and attract the wrong type of employees? Many people are shocked this leader has not been let go. 3. People have been interviewing and trying to jump ship for a long time, long before the rounds of layoffs. Actually, the last lay-off came after the discussion that too many people were using work time to interview. Good people have left. Ex-employees, at least the ones that I know, are actually quite indifferent about the lay-offs because they've been preparing, contrary to what some of these reviews say. 4. The management team mentioned above remains to be the management team. They have not addressed this downhill slide - when did it start, what happened, what are they doing about it. They continue acting as if nothing is wrong, as if they haven't lied about how much money was left in the bank. "Pivoting to the next phase of growth", was the only descriptor used for these turns of events. 5. You have gone from ~60 engineers in SF to < 10 in a couple of months. Your rating has gone from 5.0 to 3.2. Please, try to think about what has gone wrong rather than force writing raving reviews containing no factual substance on Glassdoor