Immense shortcomings - Anonymous employee Dstillery Employee Review

2.0
28 Dec 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good place to work at if you're just starting out. The technology actually works. Opportunities for cross-collaboration.

Cons

Lack of clear vision and strategy, with reorg after reorg as a result. Layoffs without substantial justification. People with great performance track-record disappear and no one talks about it. The leadership is too concentrated and credit only goes to the ones with a science-based background. No room to grow, even though they will tell you that there is. Unfortunately, the culture has turned very toxic with more than half the company wanting out.

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5.0
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Pros

Great work-life balance despite the growth stage at a time, great tech leadership

Cons

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1.0
12 Sept 2024
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Pros

Some of the best coworkers you'll ever have. Unlimited PTO (not that it matters now). Relaxed workload.

Cons

Everything else. Erratic management. Mismanagement. Senior staff keeping people in the dark. Favoritism. They just laid off 40% of the company due to management failing to accommodate for Google delaying cookies... again... even though they claim to be the best data science company in programmatic... they didn't see that Google would do the same thing they did three times before? And it cost good people, some with 10+ years of tenure, their jobs? Even with that aside, managers micromanage, if you're not a "company person" installed by the board, or working with the board, you're not useful. After the last round of layoffs they kept a skeleton crew to keep the ship afloat while they try and find a buyer to sell the company for parts to make good on the board's investment (won't work).

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