Miro reviews

- Poor leadership. C-level execs are woefully disjointed. - There are too many meetings for the sake of meetings. Leadership wants to appear impactful but are really just adding needless work when people are already swamped. Too many customer-facing calls needlessly involve multiple managers who don't add value. It makes it seem as if IC's can't be trusted and leaders are looking for reasons to pat themselves on the back. - When there's a problem heads will roll and individuals are sacrificed and replaced when the organization should really step back to identify, strategize, and actually address the root cause. The environment just feels desperate. - The culture is broken. People are burnt out and disengaged. Feedback is recognized but not actioned. Leadership is cliquey. - Most of the people management positions have no idea what they are doing and only got in those positions by being in the right place (hyper-growth start up) at the right time (pandemic). With the market shifting, the company mainly only hires from competitors to acquire inside knowledge instead of recognizing existing talent. - Not very remote-friendly. If you are in one of the [office] hubs, you're expected to be in the office 2x/week although executives never show up. If you're fully remote you are a second-class citizen and will have less recognition and growth opportunity. If you're an executive, no matter where you are, somehow none of this seems to apply. - Constant restructuring and too much pivoting on strategies. More than your average tech company of this size.

- Lack of empathy during the recent round of layoffs. VP laid me off and did not even know my name. He/She read off a script and the HR counterpart had no answers to any of my questions and both seemed annoyed I even had questions. Director who likely helped make the decisions did not even show his/her face in the meeting and only reached out because he/she needed something from me - Underhanded and misleading conversations from managers and directors to gauge your value and commitment to the company - Disorganization in the layoff process made me feel the People team was unprepared for the layoffs which just made the lack of empathy more pronounced. But the CEO had the PR layoff blog post all ready for customers to see - Frivolous spending like the millions spent on the Monster ad and light up wristbands to tell people to come back to a meeting room for a large corporate event - Product no longer has a distinct competitive edge. The product is a one trick pony and Miro has missed years of potential advancement by relying on their PLG motion and now competition is stronger than ever and Miro is scrambling to differentiate - Push and pull among departments due to competing priorities of teams which cause friction - Lack of transparency in diversity assessment in their hiring process despite touting themselves as a diverse company