AOL reviews about "senior management"

Biased and Unfair Leadership team. The so called UK Leadership team is confused and looks lost. There is a trend in AOL, whenever they aquire/partner with a new company, all the promotions and prestigious roles go to the employees of that new company. The latest being Microsoft. A new leader was hired and 2 months later it is found that he will be reporting to his own post. Another Leader joins in with so much hype and noise only to leave within 7 months. Other senior management roles similarly is being handed over to MSFT employees with no proven track record - unfairly denying the old & deserving AOL employees growth. All the interviews being held are just EYE WASH as the decisions are all pre-decided and known to all. There seems to be a POWER FIGHT between the Leaders in UK. Everyone wants to build an EMPIRE but unfortunately not a TEAM.

Very hard to climb the ladder. if not impossible Annual Reviews are crap - everyone gets a 3/5 - which is "good or really good". Never met someone that got a 5. Constant layoffs - some people wait years to get the severance package Priorities always changing Senior management not involved - poor business decisions due to zero familiarity with products Grow by acquisition which leads to a bunch of disparate products - huge tech debt, impossible to solve Your experience can vary widely based on who your boss is etc Annual raises 3%, even if you killed it.... so why work hard without incentive? Internal politics/bickering due to lack of focus distracts from productivity

Long hard hours for Senior Management

There are lots of lazy employees and that puts more strain on others. This is a very title driven company that needs change their attitude with listening to their employees instead of just Senior management.

Senior management is disconnected in few of their decescions

Very corporate, meeting culture. Senior management is constantly changing strategies, lots of layoffs

The problem with AOL in London is 100% the Senior Management team. They are dishonest, reactive, arrogant and care little for their employees. For the most part, succession planning is non-existent, they hire and fire on a whim so there isn't a lot of opportunity for anyone to really make their mark or progress through the ranks. They make promises they do not follow through with. There is no transparency and they rarely communicate their decisions to the wider business so it's difficult to understand what is happening and why. Things are constantly changing so you never really know where you stand or whether the project your working on will ever make an impact or even be relevant from one day to the next. They promote values which they do not abide by. As an employee, I rarely felt like the Senior Management team had any respect or concern for anyone other than themselves. Some great people work for AOL but very often they are under utilised, unappreciated and their talent unrecognised and thus completely wasted. It's a shame because it has the potential to be a great company and place to work but at this rate, it never will be.

Always laying people off, senior management disconnected with workers