Own Company reviews

Where to start… Since Silicon Valley Bank went under in 2022 and it was clear that after taking everyone to Vegas the company success, morale and culture has been on a rapid decline. A lot of the decisions on who was to leave during “restructuring” made little to no sense at all, with it planting a spotlight on quasi-nepotism, managers retaining positions not based on success or good man management skills but their ability to brown nose the right people. With this in itself creating a hostile and somewhat clique team environment post redundancies with what was once a very collaborative and thriving culture. The CEO at the time of laying off a large portion of the company was awaiting delivery of an Aston Martin from the UK and rumours are rife that he was warned by the BoDs that if he was to action the Vegas trip that he would have to make cuts, choosing prestige and retaining his cult of personality over sensible business ideals that he preached for the months prior. Management and senior management have a definitive degree of favouritism and like the playground, decide who is “in this month” and who isn’t. Meaning those who don’t necessarily perform or contribute are protected based on personal relationships inside and outside of work, when others who do not fit in with their groups are target, with many of the managers having the personal skills of sandpaper and bordering on bullying or verbal abuse. The whole environment makes it therefore incredibly difficult to raise grievances against certain managerial staff members due to the close interconnectedness of them all, not to mention the lack of impartiality in the HR team in responding to raised grievances. I’ve heard many times across multiple issues, how a grievance was raised and the axe actually came down on the individual that raised an issue against management. There have been talks of multiple relationships amongst senior leadership and with lower tier employees of Own being the cause of this protection. All of this and a lack of pay rises in the last couple of years has led to the teams struggling to be motivated to perform, as well as some subpar product releases in certain fields making it tough to diversify pipeline.

So where do I begin. The SDR team is viewed so poorly at Own. No one higher up has any trust in this team. We our consistently bashed and never praised. The AE’s can barely ever book their own meetings and blame the sdrs for not getting them enough. There has been a lot of change management in SDR leadership from what I see. They just brought on a new director who is a failed RVP from what everyone has said. This is common theme in the sdr organization from I understand. They bring in failed sales managers to try to fix business development. I believe the company has to really dig in and figure out why this team is having such struggles. Most of the sdrs on the team work super hard. There isn’t much guidance from leadership, it’s basically a free for all on how we can get to our quota. I was excited to get a new director and at first it looked awesome. The more we get to know him, he doesn’t understand anything. We all feel like we are teaching him. I hope things change going into next year it’s been very hard to work here the last 3 months. Also mind you most of us here are under 6 months we shouldn’t be teaching a director how we do our job. We really need someone to step in and change things for the positive. The moral the last couple of months has really gone down. This job was fun when I first started now it seems like a total disaster.