Politics and organizational inertia get in the way of practicing product management - Senior Product Manager Audible Employee Review

2.0
Aug 28, 2023
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Pros

- Nice coworkers - Interesting product - Passionate user base - Inspiring founder - Company is socially conscious and truly aims to make the world a better place

Cons

- Deep product management expertise is missing at the leadership level. - There has been very little strategy or vision for years. - Despite desire to work in an outcome-focused way, roadmaps are driven by feature ideas from leaders, rather than empowering teams to solve and iterate. - Painful, waterfall-like quarterly planning. - Over-indexation on document writing and product specs. - Tenure is rewarded over performance.

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5.0
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2.0
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