High potential solution, bad management - Director HQ Level THEOplayer Employee Review

1.0
15 Apr 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great product/solution and lots of potential but...

Cons

First of all, the owners are 3 former friends, 2 of them are brothers, and on top of the fact that they are always in disagreement and fighting, they have no respect for their employees. The youngest one is the CTO and lacks discipline. This person drops curse words and profanity about every 10 minutes. The oldest one is the CEO. He doesn't communicate, is macro managing, has no people-skills and brings stress on the entire floor because you never know how he will react, which brings us to the main reason why people are leaving the company. I have never seen or definitely not worked with such a person. The 3rd one, the CTO, is OK but sometimes lives in his own world and doesn’t stand up against the 2 brothers. All 3, especially the CEO, demotivate people, definitely pay under budget, have no respect for their clients and make the life for 75-80% of the staff very unpleasant. About the organization itself. Utter chaos, below zero work/life balance, no processes, perks for the management only and as less as possible for the other staff. The policy, especially in sales, marketing and operations, is to put in-expensive profiles on various functions creating a very inexperienced team and since these are all very young people, they created a little bit of a playground. (with respect for these people). Customer service is chaotic but well masked to the outside world. The company has no clue of how to do business (besides a limited few but they are limited too because of the controlling behavior of the C level team) and they literally don’t understand that people want to evolve within a company and that this takes support instead of demotivation. I almost forgot, they want to be a hip & trendy company, but you can't even work remote or from home. The CEO literally doesn't trust you. Working from home to him means doing nothing. I can tell so much more about this company and especially the C-level team but that would make this review a bit over the top. The bottom line is that I do not advice to work for this company. It’s sad to see so much potential goes to waste because the CEO is too proud to listen to other people and take advise. You probably think that I’m a frustrated employee who got fired but trust me, this is the real deal because I left on my own initiative.

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5.0
23 Oct 2023
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Pros

It's a great team and it's fun to be part of a rapidly growing company. The products are great and there's always something new on the horizon.

Cons

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5.0
29 Feb 2024
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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The atmosphere in the company is great, it's growing rapidly and values contributions.

Cons

I left after being unable to follow the rapid pace in a moment of weakness as I didn't want to slow anyone down.

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