RUN. - Anonymous employee DTEN Employee Review

1) Weak Leadership +Poor Communicators: they passive-aggressively address perceived employee performance issues, and may even terminate someone "suddenly" without any coaching or performance efforts. +Volatile Personalities: the Founder/CEO often yells at people, even if he doesn't mean it (he blames his Chinese culture and a language barrier). +Condescending and Arrogant CMO: speaks down to people in the office, leads by fear and intimidation, and spends more time pontificating than listening. +Micromanaging: at every level, C-suite does not empower teams to do their jobs. C-suite also seems to refuse to bring in experienced mid-management and other leadership to own growing various teams. +No Empathy: Founder/CEO is polarizing. +No Leadership Skills: Founder/CEO leads by fear and intimidation and can have explosive anger. Unable to motivate, inspire or effectively organize teams. +Weak Business Acumen: they don't seem to know how to run a business, and it impacts the business and people's ability to do their jobs. "DTEN" is a new company from the former DisplayTen brand, but it's hard to think they're different. +Leadership will hurt the company before the competition would. 2) Poor Culture +In a word: chaos. +Chinese Origin: Founder/CEO expects all employees to work 24/7/365, with no respect of PTO, weekends, or after-hours. +Low Employee Morale: employees are less engaged and committed - they never speak up, even those who have been around for over a year. +Not allowed to work from home...but people (even leadership themselves) sometimes do anyway. +No accountability for employees, no consistency from management. +Managers don't set expectations, so people trip over each other in trying to understand what they're supposed to do and how. +I wouldn't recommend my own friends or family to work here with me. 3) Fiscally Irresponsible +Won't invest in tools or equipment to support basic employee job functions (or success). +Keeps company health and insights secret. +Overly stringent on some expenses, and questionably loose in other aspects. 4) Weak Compensation +Stock options are only given to the top, and select employees. +Employees are not paid at market-competitive rates. +Benefits are decent. +"Unlimited PTO" is highly scrutinized and management will question your work-ethic and job-performance for all PTO requests. Even for 1-day requests.