Avoid this company. Confused management, toxic work environment - Architect Liferay Employee Review

1.0
9 Mar 2019
Recommend
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Pros

From the outside it looks good

Cons

A declining customer base and a very buggy product are causing increased stress to upper management. All hands meetings were negative and depressing. They had a large layoff in 2018 and a negative outlook at the beginning of 2019. The 2018 North America symposium had fewer than 90 paying attendees. This is a company in decline and the stress that causes is manifesting itself in a number of negative ways that are creating a toxic and unsettling environment: micromanagement, harsh and unfair reviews, unclear expectations, poor role definition, guilt for not working overtime, etc. I went into this position taking a pay cut thinking it was a solid company with strong leadership and fulfilling opportunities to give back to the community. I was wrong. It was easily the worst job decision of my career. I hope others won't make the same mistake I did.

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Liferay Response
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Thanks for your honest feedback and we're sorry you didn't have a delightful experience working at Liferay even in the short time you were here. You bring up some valid points and leadership is working on solutions to improve communication, make NA Symposium more valuable to customers, and build up leaders. Role definition and leadership training are two major goals for HR this year and we just hired a VP of People (starts April 22) who is tasked to help grow our people. I'm not sure if you filled out the exit interview form when you left, but as we seek to grow we appreciate feedback so feel free to email hr@liferay.com if there are other things you'd like to mention.

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