Pros
Some good teammates and friends
Kontras
What is the real problem with ReOrbit - I get asked this many times. I am usually at a loss for words, I want to say "you need to be there to understand the trauma". But not everyone can be there, and hopefully wouldn't have to. The main problem is the top leadership. It is okay to start out fresh while founding a start-up, not knowing much, but taking lessons along the way, hiring experts in the domain and giving them the right responsibility, figuring out the tech, the product, the way to manage people and how to lead and motivate a successful team. Here, things started the same way, but went downhill very quickly. There is no learning. There is no yearning for learning. The top management isn't interested in good quality products, or products at all. There is no strategy, or vision or understanding even of the basics of the technology they want to build. As if this wasn't bad enough, there is also the feeling in the top management, that they know best, about everything! They know how to sell, how to market, how to treat people, how to build the product, how to run offices, how to build relations. So the people hired are not hired for their talent, or opinion or expertise, they are hired to follow the orders. And to get blamed for when these "expert" ideas don't work out. But lets not say the top management is not good at anything, they are experts when it comes to playing fast and lose with the truth - both internally and externally. People and their talent is given zero respect. Employees are treated like toilet paper, use and throw, and repeat - at all levels of seniority. The people are driven to being scared, unsure, frustrated, burnt and pushed out. The executive team collectively lacks empathy, vision, talent and most importantly, any inclination to get better. Being there felt like being on a ship in a stormy sea. Not dying yet, but uneasy, nauseous, queasy and with no land in sight.