Run from this company! - Director Airgain Employee Review

1.0
Mar 18, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great products, co-workers, and employees

Cons

Executive management does not care about employees, only stock prices. Every year the CEO over inflates the sales forecast to drive the stock prices and then places the blame on employees when numbers are not met and lays off a bunch of hardworking employees that are making a difference. Rinse and repeat, every year. Not sure why the board continues to trust the CEO. When things start to go sideways, the CEO starts micromanaging and berating sales instead of putting together a realistic forecast. All this because CEO only cares about stock prices and refuses to understand the value of resellers/channel, ramp up times, and working with the government. I have seen too many talented people let go for the wrong reasons at this company. Nobody can have a conversation with the CEO without him mentioning investors and stock prices, even if he's talking to engineering or accounting. CEO lacks experience and it shows.

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Airgain Response
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Thank you for your review and we always appreciate candid feedback, especially when there is a need to improve our internal practices. I concur that Airgain features phenomenal products and the people at the company are among some of the best I have ever worked with. We absolutely recognize that we are not perfect as a company and are making strides to improve our process and practices, especially within the Sales vertical. We have recently hired an SVP of Sales who has brought positive impact to the sales team and is taking complete ownership of the sales function. With the new SVP in place, this has allowed our CEO to target his focus within his executive duties and no longer requires him to additionally lead the sales function. Our new SVP is further building out direct and channel sales and understands the timeframes required to ramp up business. He values the force multipliers such as channel sales with VARs and distributors and is improving internal/external alignment with these functions. While we still have work to do, we are looking to current and newly hired employees to drive positive change inside Airgain.

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Cons

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