Young, inept executives make it a miserable place to work - Analyst Beyond, Inc. Employee Review

1.0
Jan 26, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some very nice people at Overstock.com and a few who actually understand retail and have some experience outside of the company.

Cons

Patrick Byrne has insulated himself with a young, inexperienced senior leadership team that has no vision for the future. Decisions are all reactive instead of proactive and the company feels more like a vanity project for Patrick Byrne than a publicly traded company with responsibility to its shareholders. Most people with outside experience end up being unhappy because the company is so poorly managed. Ideas for improving systems, proccesses or structure are not welcome. If you want to keep you job just put your head down and do what you are told even if it is detremental to the business and creates no value for shareholders.

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Pros

Fast paced environment with LOTS of hands-on experience with many different tools. The people are the reason to stay, lots of smart and caring people, managers, and leaders towards the bottom of the food chain.

Cons

Upper Management has completely destroyed this company and gutted it. In my several years at the company, communication is as poor as it could be. Bonuses are promised and then not followed up on. RIFs happen far too frequently. It is abundantly clear that this company does NOT care about it's employees, and at the moment is almost seems like they are trying as hard as they can to get people to quit so they don't have to pay severances before acquiring more companies and moving headquarters to Texas. The culture in the days of Overstock was incredible, it made people excited about being able to work there. Now people are hanging on by threads, large teams are now carried on the backs of just 1-2 people without additional pay as we see co-workers get laid off left and right. It is not sustainable. Important things are being missed because there are not enough people to do the work, which will end up biting the company in the butt for compliance and finance reasons.

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