Unhealthy culture, ineffective org structure and executive team - Anonymous employee Cyclotron Employee Review

The executive and management structure is highly ineffective. Inexperienced 'managers' known as practice leads are responsible for making siloed decisions about how to run the organization, and the result is usually a practice-centric approach while ignoring company and brand approach as a whole. The practice leads are aligned to specific technologies which creates barriers to cross-practice collaboration, disincentives working effectively as a unified company, and creates unnecessary overlap and redundancy. The practice approach to the company structure makes the delivery and presales efforts from each practice inconsistent and they often lack a sense quality. The company leader has an erratic approach to engaging with the team and managers, and has a tendency to make bold, unfounded claims about trends, strategy, and effectiveness of sales efforts. They rely extensively on their background working at Microsoft as the primary tool for promoting the business and generating opportunities. The organization relies heavily on utilizing Microsoft funding vehicles and often use funding as the primary value prop to potential customers instead of highlighting quality and trust of the company. Claims are frequently made about how the company is able to join 'exclusive' access to partner programs which are simply not true, as plenty of other partner organizations have access to the same 'exclusive' programs. Cyclotron has very little internal demand generation capabilities and relies almost entirely on sourcing leads from Microsoft. There is no cohesive strategy or values alignment to the organization structure and market approach. There is a heavy pressure to leverage offshore resources whom are ineffective at providing consistent, quality work product, or communicating effectively. Another C-level exec is grounded in a legacy mindset of managing a business including using dated approaches to forecasting and resource tracking, and requiring non-billable resources to book their time, with punitive actions being taken for non-compliance. The organization is attempting to grow to new countries including Canada and the UK while they have a very shaky foundation and organizational structure. Be cautious of Cyclotron.