No direction of the products, weak leadership - Software Development Engineer (SDE) II HackerRank Employee Review

1.0
24 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good perks, unlimited PTOs, Off-sites.

Cons

- Leaders are not able to decide what to build next and how to compete in the market. - The company has been going in losses for a couple of years and product management and engineering management have no clue how to retain existing customers. - They change their focus every quarter. Sometimes, they try to build new products but later stop them. - CEO has a lot of ambitions that can not be converted into reality due to weak leadership. VP of Engineering is not able to transfer all the energy to the engineers coming from the CEO. - Variables are not paid due to poor company performance. - Their pricing is high and nowadays better products are available in the market on low price.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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