As has been said in several reviews this year; this company has degenerated into a greedy, cronyistic, lackluster environment.
1. A HUGE deal was made about going IPO, which served the interests of the board and the Executive team...but no one else. They love to talk about how successful it was, as if waving it in our face that they made out like bandits, while the rest of us got NOTHING out of it. Very few but the highest levels received stock options, an they never rolled-out an employee stock purchase plan. They know how greedy they appear...they simply do not care.
2. The company became a leader after transforming/reinventing itself; but those days are gone. Within a few more quarters the analysts will realize there is nothing new under the hood after all the roadmap promises and the competition will catch up. This is exactly what happens when you forget that employees are your biggest asset.
3. Innovation has been replaced by micromanagement across all departments. There is no more room for creativity in design or format, since all the managers care to do is impress the person above them. We used to function in "virtual teams" that respected each other...those days have been replaced by overworked, unhappy "worker bees" who just want to finish the work on their plate and not be bothered by any requests outside their management structure.
Make no mistake, this WAS a great company once upon a time. The positives and good stories you may have heard were most likely true. But unless you are a very "heads down" person who can follow orders without feeling the need to improve on processes or question anything, this is absolutely not the place for you, and it's exactly why I left.
