Powerful Product with a good team, - Anonymous employee Catalytic Employee Review

* CEO. All the issues with Catalytic are created in this office from an incoherent sale and marketing strategy to everyone having to stroke his ego to get approval for the smallest task. He is both vindictive and aloof. Involved in everything and responsible for nothing. The team is led into poor execution and decisions without support. He wants to dabble in everything and avoid the responsibilities of this office unless it serves his ego or whim. He is passive aggressive enough that long term employees avoid him. Lazy. Do not trust when he takes an interest in you or your ideas. He does not care and you should be wary of interacting with him. He is loyal to none and lacks empathy and skill. He is leading the company to failure, and many of the top lieutenants are leaving or have left. * CTO is a legit genius and nice guy 99% of the time but the 1% when he is overworked can be hard to cope with. I have seen him build completely new solutions out of thin air and go without sleep for days to meet a commitment. However, he gets snappy on those long drives and can negate all the good things he does for you with ill-intentioned words. Nobody really pushes him to take care of himself. Like many at Catalytic he could be an even bigger rock star for the company but is often caught up fixing minutia and irritable with lack of rest. In the many years here, I never had the same marketing and sales strategy over the course of 2 weeks. Many metaphors were attempted and thesis length CEO narratives that didn't hang together were pushed on the team. Sales was definitely not nurtured and often ignored and good opportunities were lost to poor executive leadership and decisions. No clear path to career opportunities.