Lack of direction from leadership - Annonous Auctane Employee Review

1.0
Oct 15, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Certain departments and people are nice to work with. Good health insurance options and 401K match.

Cons

Most of upper management is compromised of friends who simply are not leaders and are there what it seems like a check. It took them roughly 6 months to create a commission plan for sales so sales had no commission in the meantime. Leaders were constantly asking the workers below on how the business operated because they needed help to understand what the business did. It was very unorganized and a big political game of keeping your job once the company was bought out by Thoma bravo.

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5.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazing work culture (before merger), Warm leads, amazing leaders

Cons

High burn out position, merger is affecting moral, difficult to enjoy time off, constantly changing goal and complete compensation plan. Also career opportunities were slim

2.0
Apr 27, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The frontend engineering culture didn't exist before our team built it. Establishing modern stack practices (React, Vue, TypeScript) and bringing rigor to the frontend was genuinely rewarding work. Talented engineers and strong peer-level collaboration. Real technical ownership when projects actually moved forward. Decent benefits and remote flexibility until they started taking remote away.

Cons

Despite the company being profitable, there were layoffs nearly every quarter, which made it impossible to plan or feel stable. Leadership was consistently disorganized. Stakeholder alignment was a constant problem and decisions took far too long to land. A lot of projects never launched, not because of execution issues, but because leadership couldn't get the right people in the room or commit to a direction. Constant churn at the leadership and org level created whiplash on priorities.

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