Exciting but highly volatile environment - Vice President Affinnova Employee Review

2.0
20 Feb 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Technology is cool, co atracts really smart people, fast paced

Cons

CEO is mercurial and has "fire everyone" mentality. His direct reports continually turn over (CFO leaving, many CMO's, global head of sales, head of Analytics). Not truly performance driven, especially in sales. Growth has slowed dramatically, co has a hard time recruiting and retaining good people, especially outside the US. Very few women in senior management. Technology isn't "sticky" so company struggling to transition from market research co into being a tech co. There have never been employee reviews so it's hard to get job feedback in order to improve your performance.

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5.0
11 Mar 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Tech focused market research firm

Cons

Investors demand a little too much

4.0
19 Aug 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I came from a Fortune 500 company to join Affinnova. I was nervous at first transitioning to such a smaller company until i met with Waleed, CEO, during my interview process. He shared his visions and ideas and plans for Affinnova and showed how he cared to grow each department and really valued the department I would be joining. Meeting with him really sealed the deal for me. The department I was in at the Fortune 500 company struggled to be noticed and valued for the 4 years I was there, so it was refreshing to see a company place value tat department instead. Not to mention how exciting it is to be interviewing with the CEO and even after being hired working closely with him as well. I have already had a lot of exposure across senior management which has been a great experience for me. It’s great to come to work with such smart and innovative people who are excited and believe in the work they do. Plus, there is so much growth that happens to the company and its employees. I drive a commute of an hour and 10 minutes (with no traffic) every day, because that's how much i enjoy my job.

Cons

Being a global company is a great part of Affinnova, but there are a few struggle to really gain a solid culture across the board. This attributes to having an outside sales team which is a big part of Affinnova, but any company with an outside sales team struggles to find that solid culture across all avenues.

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