progressive leadership - Management FAIL - Manager Sage Employee Review

2.0
10 Apr 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You'll be safe in the knowledge that your colleagues are in the same boat. The people you work with day to day are great, good vibe!

Cons

However, middle management are so out of their depth that depth that your experience may be an inconsistent one. Shifting targets, managers under pressure, often leads to poorly handled communication of expectations. This is prevalent in the Brand/Marketing department, where (apparently) experienced managers and heads of department display all of the traits that simply won't get the best from their people or get a good job done.

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5.0
28 Apr 2026
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Pros

Good benefits. Strong company. Customer focus.

Cons

Frequent Executive changes. Trimming in Engineering teams interferes with product changes.

2.0
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

was hired as remote and get to have that honored, but have been openly told no career progression because of remote status. decent pay

Cons

Leadership instability: Seven manager changes during my relatively short tenure. Unrealistic targets: A sales quota set at 1,100% growth (not a typo). Slow product development: Getting anything actioned on the product side takes far too long. Product management turnover: Three product manager changes, resulting in no meaningful deliverables in over three years. Misaligned hiring priorities: Greater emphasis on DEI optics than on hiring people positioned to drive growth. Internal vs. customer focus: More energy spent on internal events than on product enhancements. Lack of accountability (the biggest issue): No one takes ownership. Responsibility gets passed around constantly — for example, client cancellations going unprocessed because they impact someone's numbers. Managers have openly encouraged pushing the work onto someone else rather than handling it.

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