Decent but could be better - Product Owner Bullhorn Employee Review

3.0
Aug 17, 2022
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Pros

-Remote first company -PTO policy -Promote within -Market leader for a product

Cons

Where to start…? The golden squishy bulls and a face on a slide deck for recognition is absolutely a slap in the face. Employees work hard, put in extra hours for customers, support partners, and their atta boy is a recognition on a company slide deck. Employees should be compensated better. Both in salary and in recognition for hard work. The product leadership strategy is misguided. Product owners are not owners of their product but simply a bypass to getting epics done. Product managers are really making decisions on roadmap and not understanding the actual vision to the dev team. Product owners aren’t in front of customers and don’t get to hear pain points. Lack of merit raises for employees. It didn’t keep up with inflation while I was there. Top talent is leaving the building weekly.

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Bullhorn Response
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At Bullhorn, Product owners are critical to the success of their product missions and sprint teams. They are not a "bypass" - they are the leaders that carry the product & feature vision to the developers. POs have the critical job of ensuring that the feature development is broken down into appropriate milestones and that each milestone is clearly defined both in customer value & development acceptance criteria. High-performing teams at Bullhorn have a very tight relationship & communication between Product Manager & Product Owner that includes participation in product strategy decisions. I'm truly sorry that wasn't your experience here & am happy to talk live if you feel that would be of value. Please connect with me, or send me a message if we are already connected on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mashar Thank you. Mitesh Ashar Senior Vice President, Product Management

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Bullhorn is full of smart people who genuinely care about doing right by customers and each other. I had the opportunity to work with leaders and individual contributors who were collaborative, knowledgeable, and willing to step in whenever help was needed. The company gives leaders a significant amount of autonomy to improve their organizations. If you see a problem and have a well-thought-out solution, you're generally trusted to own it. That made it a rewarding place to lead through change and build long-term improvements. The people are what I'll remember most. There are many individuals across the business that have become life-long friends.

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The pace is fast, which can be exciting, but it also means priorities change frequently. Teams sometimes find themselves balancing new initiatives before previous ones have had enough time to mature, making it difficult to realize the full benefit of the work. As the company has grown, consistency in how priorities are reinforced across organizations has become more important. Slowing down just enough to fully operationalize key initiatives before moving to the next could create even stronger long-term results.

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