Absolutdata Reviews

Unequal distribution of work and too much workload.

COVID gave them a reason to fire employees, though the writing was clear on the wall for a while. Despite losing a number of clients last year, they went ahead and hired 20 new analysts in the analytics team as late as January this year, firing 16 of them by April. This shows the complete lack of long term (or even short term) planning in the company. There are a lot of other examples, but I think Glassdoor would have to exceed its page limit if one was to write everything that was wrong in the company. I understand COVID gave them a reasonable excuse, but the company had been in a bad stage prior to that too. Now it brings me to how they fired people? You had think it was based on some sort of merit qualification, either competence or years within the company, both of which could be justified. However, competence - NO, Years of experience - NO. Officially, the reason given was that the decision was based on people working on "ongoing" projects vs. people on bench, but there was also a lot of politics done in that too. It was never a clear mandate and people were just told in a 5 minute telephone call (the entire country was in lockdown then) that they were done. They could not access their laptops either from that day onwards, which meant a lot of them had to forgo a number of important - professional and personal documents. And some of these people were high-performers with over 8-9 years of experience. Having been among the 65% of the company that was retained, I can safely say the decision was built just on pureplay politics. What really got my goat and made me finally write a review here was knowing that a Manager in another team, who has been on sabbatical for the last 2.5 years - when the maximum sabbatical period in the company officially is six months - has been, wait for it, RETAINED. Can you just believe it, you've fired a number of people who were working for you, and you keep a person who hasn't been seen in office for 30 months, on the rolls? If this is not politics, I don't know what is. And what message does that send to the rest of the company. The entire top leadership is a sham, running up to the directions of the defacto CEO, who runs the entire show, in the absence of the actual CEO, who is in the US of A supposedly running "Sales", but has absolutely no idea about either sales or about running a company. The defacto CEO runs the entire show, and wants different teams to actually compete with one other in order to extend her own power. This explains the lack of growth over the past many years - the owners (except for the third owner other than the CEO and the defacto CEO, the one who wants the company to succeed) does not want the company to grow, fearing they would lose their control, which they extend through their cronies in top leadership. Anyone having a different point of view is discouraged, and the top leadership encourage a "you pat my back, I'll pat yours" approach. A good indication would be that nothing is being done despite these low Glassdoor rating - any other company would have tried to get its house in order, but not Absolutdata. The actual CEO has absolutely no idea about how the company runs - I am pretty sure he has no idea that Glassdoor is even a thing. All he cares about is impressing some clients through high-end analytics, though the infrastructure for that is completely missing. Also he cares a lot about mission and vision of the company, so much so that the mission and vision changes on every company day. There's no concrete plan, and the only reason that Absolutdata ever saw any growth was because the middle management and juniors were competent, and made sure the company grew. And most of them have been thrown out now, either frustrated by the politics, lack of growth, or generally been told to go away.