The Fast Track to Nowhere - Management Spireon Employee Review

-Amateur Executive team. Recent additions to the executive team do not know anything about the industry and they are ignoring many of the core fundamentals that made the company successful in past years. -If you don't work overtime you are not seen as not contributing to the team. Engineering team members work grossly excessive hours just to keep up with delivery expectations. No comp time or even recognition provided by management. -It's all smoke and mirrors there. All the way up to the board. There is no one left there with the courage or integrity to actually state what is wrong and what is going wrong with the company. The CEO takes great exception to people voicing opinions that do not tow the company line. It is obvious that the name of the game at this point is to secure a sale. Cost cutting has been painful, everything from cheaper hotels for most of the remote employees to cutting the operations teams hours, to lay offs, to not providing company cell phones (and under compensating for using personal phones), closing offices, and hiring staff in less expensive markets. The single driving force these days is raising the EBITDA, ignoring risks in the shrinking market space in the industry, and ignoring challenges in the the new product plans. -Everyone is expendable there. No matter their experience, position, or contributions to the organization. Employees often wonder who is next on the chopping block. HR does not do a good job of managing the attitudes or the culture there. Layoffs seem to occur every eight to 12 months. Look at the history of the executive team and you can see that they all come from organizations where this is the norm. -Office politics are completely out of control. Constant power play by persons in many of the departments within the company. Competing priorities and no top-down direction on company wide priorities. The new CEO and executive staff have done nothing to alleviate this.