Talented employees/managers keep this company afloat despite abusive CEO and lack of true executive leadership - Anonymous employee Codero Employee Review

1.0
1 Nov 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to get your foot in the door in a growing industry. Benefits start immediately. Austin office is very laid back, and very open feel. Love the location off 360. In Marketing, good budget producing a good number of leads to a talented sales team. Support team seems to try hard, but lacks stable management and adequate training to avoid daily fires leading to an "everyone pile on to fix" mentality. Guess the high customer NPS ratings mean that most customers are happy enough.

Cons

CEO micro-manages every department, but offers no real value based on what I've seen. Seems to consume management teams' time with endless meetings to berate them for the company's failures. (Thankfully I'm not in those meetings, but does the CEO not realize how thin the walls are or how ridiculous his temper tantrums and fist-banging sound to anyone within earshot?). In all my previous jobs, CEOs were too busy developing business plans and making executive level decisions to be immersed in the day-to-day operational minutiae. In other words, this CEO has no actual job, but won't let anyone else do theirs.

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Codero Response
10y
Thank you for your feedback. The first third of your review seems fair and balanced. Thank you for that. While we appreciate all feedback, it is disappointing to see the kind of rhetoric in the rest of your review. At Codero, we have an open door policy and we welcome direct engagement with all employees. Our organization is reasonably flat, by design. Employees have an opportunity to interact with their CEO and executive staff directly, while in other companies in our industry they don’t necessarily have that opportunity. I would have much rather heard your concerns and feedback in person, or through your manager rather than here on this forum. I would have been more than glad to explain what our priorities are as a business, and what consumes my time as CEO, Chairman, and President of Codero. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me or anyone on my staff, and I will personally make the time (as I always do) to transparently explain the company’s priorities, address your concerns, and guide you on how you can play a constructive role in our company.

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