Pros
The company culture and overall health was top tier when I first joined. The CMO wasn't just supportive during his leadership, he empowered his team with his experience and guidance. Most importantly, he just let you do what you were hired to do. It’s rare to meet colleagues as brilliant, kind, and consistently happy, including one in leadership, as those I’ve had the pleasure of working with. To say it was a blessing to know them and work beside them is an understatement.
Cons
Why listen when you can just forward an article? A CEO’s Approach Weaponized incompetence: It seems ironic that the CEO, who often appears to severely lack a fundamental understanding of his own responsibilities, has no hesitation whatsoever in critiquing others’ performance. No worries though, he will just send over an article highlighting best practices from 1975 for you to be inspired by. Lies, lies and more lies: I will give it to him, he did at least warn us about the first wave of lay offs. It was how employees were handled AFTER the first wave that showed his puppeteer like, grossly careless behavior. From flat out saying there would be no more lay offs, to script reading speeches from HR, to outright levels of arrogance, employees were left in a constant state of emotional limbo on what statements were true and what wasn’t true. Tone deaf tendencies: CEO ‘likes’ your updated status when you put you are now ‘open for work’ on LinkedIn. Why value a team’s 75+ years of marketing expertise when you can just bring back glorified entry level business sales reps... Promising start: At the height of our department’s success, welcoming additional help was a natural step. Lack of experience and education showcased within these roles were quickly shown but somehow career advancements happened not once, not twice, but three times with zero proof of work in general, let alone proof of success of said work. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: Allowing EXTREMELY UNEXPERIENCED people to ultimately call all the shots in a department they had ZERO experience in was a detrimental decision. Their roles were ironically ‘not affected’ by sales shortcomings.