Do Not Recommend - Anonymous employee Listing Power Tools Employee Review

This company self-identifies as a startup in the attempt to explain its disorganized ownership of multiple under-strategized properties. Nothing ever gets completed at this company, products are constantly delivered half-completed or tossed aside before full fruition as focus is shifted in importance based upon what matters most RIGHT NOW. Those departments not of importance can go weeks without any feedback and strategy from management. No one seems to really know what the true vision of this company is. Attempts at titles made by the CEO during my less than one-year employment: entrepreneur, venture capitalist, mentor to real estate agents, thought leader in the real estate industry, radio show host, marketing content curator, magazine publisher, book publisher, tech hub incubator, minor league soccer team owner, and active wear designer. People with professional business experience are severely missing in leadership roles. Majority of day-to-day operational decisions are made by the CPO, who acts as a gatekeeper to the CEO. The CPO consistently fails to provide strategic direction on any project, resulting in further delays. For example, the entire company was put on JIRA, a project monitoring system, and told that job performance would be based upon completion of assigned tickets. And yet tickets sent to the CPO for next-step approval sat unanswered for weeks, if not months, with repercussions falling on the team who could not act until the CPO responded. For majority of tickets in my department, a response was simply never given. There is no annual review, let alone positive career guidance or defined corporate policy. The financial possibilities from Palmer’s mortgage success make this workplace all the more disappointing: This is an office that is funded by his mortgage company and cost is rarely a concern. If anything, attention should be drawn to how often a project is started and then goes nowhere, resulting in so much financial waste. The company’s ill-fated cronyism-structure means that friends of friends or relatives are given job responsibilities and job titles they are not qualified for, resulting in a failure of quality and protocol. Of most importance is the clear lack of loyalty from this employer: one month the CPO will tell your team the CEO is pleased with progress, the very next month your job can be made redundant, no matter how clean your employment record or how hard of an effort you made for this company. Despite consistently battling the bottleneck created by the CPO and still meeting all project goals, I was let go due to directional change of the project, without any effort made to find alternative respnsibilities that would have allowed me to continue employment. This company cares very little to create investment in your future and makes it clear by actions like this. And the embarrassment of having to then explain this brief employment blip on your Linkedin profile will haunt you forever in future job interviews.