Inexperienced and defensive leadership - Software Engineer Strava Employee Review

1.0
3 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good company mission - Good benefits - Good work-life balance

Cons

- Very inexperienced senior leadership team. There are multiple people who haven't really worked anywhere else or in any other successful company. But they are in the top person's inner circle (demographic-wise and just tenure) so they keep getting promoted. One leader made multiple bad hires (there were measurable public failures and very clear sentiment) and they still let multiple people quit because of the bad hire, even though eventually they had to let go of the bad hire anyways. Despite such shoddy decisions they are still tasked with running the show. Their is no accountability. - The senior leadership culture is very defensive. They push a culture where nobody can express a critique about anything. The smallest negative opinion or feedback is punished, and the all hands is used to publically shame the entire company to ensure even anonymously nobody says anything negative about leadership. The anonymous forum is a joke - all the responses are platitudes and gas-lighting of employees, with the aim to ensure nobody submits any further feedback. They keep saying come have a live conversation but when people go have a live conversation they punish them and take away their good projects. - The leadership team has their head in the sand about the business. They only listen to someone with no experience, who is pushing his personal agenda but knows how to butter up the senior leaders. - The company made a huge deal about being anti-racist. By all reports, the people of color are unhappy and leaving in bulk.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

The main pros are that there are actually some really brilliant people who work here. They are intelligent, funny, and have an actual clear vision of how things should be done to deliver a great product to users.

Cons

The cons are that leadership only believes in and genuinely elevates white male voices. Sure, there are ERGs and prominent people of color at the company. But the real decisionmaking power is made by a combination of certain "golden boys" and their buddy, Claude. The ones driving the ship actually lack critical thinking skills.

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