Shockingly bad leadership - Anonymous employee Amplitude Employee Review

1.0
Oct 11, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Unlimited PTO is great, and the pay is very good too. The product itself is amazing, even though current product vision is a little lost.

Cons

Every week the poor quality of leadership shocks me. The newly hired C-suite and VP (and President) folks are toxic, and they’re mainly focused on keeping each other happy. They only want numbers that make them look good, and they can’t handle nuance or context if it extends beyond a bullet point on a slide deck. It’s common knowledge at the IC level how incompetent they are, and team resources are strained by having to make vanity decks for leadership. Leadership has no strategy; even when they grandly presented a strategy this year, it’s a handful of words with stock images. Because they don’t know what they’re doing, fear abounds: of each other, or getting it wrong, and that fear is pressed onto employees like a heavy cloud. Oh, and the micro management: leadership is blind to how much they direct tiny, daily decisions of actual subject matter experts.

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