POOOOOR Leadership - Anonymous employee DRINKS Employee Review

2.0
11 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

SOME of the people were great. Mainly those in the trenches that are basically doing all the work. Free Parking + Free Gym+Free Lunch on Thursdays.

Cons

Leadership is terrible. CEO is incredibly pretentious (doesn't even look at the "lowly workers" nor greets anyone). Most in "high positions" here are complete "know it alls". Certain (director) positions are filled by incompetent individuals that are CLEARLY way in over their head. Also, it is extremely frustrating when almost all the inner-workings of the company is backwards. Always putting the cart ahead of the horse and then it's up the pee-ons to fix it later. If you're still there, get out while you can. This is a business that WILL NOT thrive in the future. It will likely be bought out at some point and the big boss will move on to his next venture.

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DRINKS Response
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Thank you for your review. We’re sorry that your time with DRINKS didn’t end well and we truly appreciate your feedback. Over the past few months our CEO has been tied up on many calls and has kept his door closed a lot. Those discussions are progressing steadily, and he will now have the opportunity to once again get more hands-on in the day-to-day management of the business (as opposed to being purely strategic). Your points about processes are well received. We are continually working on creating more efficient processes. There’s a balance between no meetings / small meetings and looping in way too many people. In this area we’re still experiencing growing pains, but we’ve recently gotten better and hopefully have hit our groove. We definitely need to do a much better job with exit interviews. I’m sorry we got it wrong with your exit; we will do better in the future.

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