Bewertungen für Brandwatch

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- Overall management and CTO are kind of disconnected from the rest - including their expectations and behaviour
- CTO is more of a politician than a real technology person. Talks and smiles a lot, has his nice way with words, is family to the CEO, et al, but definitely not a proper CTO IMHO. Not a professional that I look up to.
- Giles is a fine man and treats the engineers (leaves of the company tree) well but no so his fellow managers and VPs sometimes. A lot of yelling, blaming, shaming with those people
- Product in the company has been a ship adrift for many years now. The hat goes from person to person, including the CTO and CEO. Nobody knows what to do in that direction and then they just push stuff into engineering, including arbitrary deadlines (without consulting the team first) and then complain about the same deadlines not being met
- People Team is kind of not there. Only present when hiring then vanished. They muffles initiatives coming from elsewhere in the company unless they have full control of it. For a "People Team" i witnessed some not so decent interactions with employees: diminishing or treat opinions with irony (mainly Naomi).
- The satellite offices are usually treat as 2nd class offices (although management would never admit that) and communication doesn't flow as well it could / should. So you miss a lot of what's going on unless you proactively nudge your contacts in the other offices.

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- Little creative freedom caused by tight and arbitrary deadlines yielding unsatisfying and unfinished products
- Strict hierarchies and demand, report and control structures
- Immature and inexperienced management grinding down the company’s mood and productivity
- Lack of foresight in product and engineering planning leads to stale engineering efficiency and ancient processes
- Lack or product vision and direction: feeding of former successes failing and positioning new products
- Dusty tech stack without tactics to address them: efforts get drowned in delivery pressure
- Disappointing and incapable People Management not being able to build trust by deceiving employees

Look elsewhere or join a ship starting to sink with already high fluctuation in engineering.

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Sometimes confusing structure, you have to figure out a lot of stuff by yourself when you don't want to ask somebody every 5 minutes in the first weeks.

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Below average pay, with no real opportunity of a pay rise anytime soon. Some issues with management, which have been addressed and are being dealt with though. No real chance to move up and develop. Some people were also very lucky to get given roles they shouldn't really have been given in the first place, due to lack of experience and skill. Lack of clarity from management. Processes get changed quite frequently, which is very frustrating and confusing.

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Not enough time to play more than one round of Kicker

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A little ponderous in decision-making; could be more responsive to the market.

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HR tells you to sign a contract when you leave that you will not speak badly about the company online or in person and threatens that you will not receive your vacation pay out (which is usually significant) if you do not sign the contract. Fun fact- New York law requires all companies to pay employees for their vacation time, regardless of any tricky 'brand image' contracts. <This gave me a sour taste in mouth when leaving that they do not have my best interests at heart>
Employees are really young, competitive and lots of millennial things going on. Hard environment to work in, people are talking a lot and lots of noise. Salaries are significantly low. Not a lot of opportunities for growth since the managers are really young, and are afraid you will take their job. Just not a lot of opportunities if you would like to be mentored or move up.