Worst CEO experience ever - Anonymous employee Dynamics Employee Review

1.0
May 13, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Only working programs at company are those where employees -- both senior and middle management -- create skunkwork projects invisible to CEO (Jeff Mullen). Universal distrust of CEO bonds all employees. We want it to succeed but CEO undermines all trust, initiative, culture and spirit.

Cons

Having worked here for a little over two years, I'm not sure I'll list Dynamics on my resume. As a senior tech executive, I had many options and was impressed by the investment raised, board and staff I met initially. What occurred next is a tragedy for everyone past and present at Dynamics Inc, getting to know the CEO. Walking down the hallway, he'd find some reason to call you out for weakness (even first day), then you walk 10 feet away and other employees would be badmouthing him for his bad decisions and systemic volatility. This general employee distrust benchmarks the company in every division. Not one person I know does not have a resume in play and will share that with others. One senior lead went as far to call the CEO "It," as in: "We should finish this meeting before 'It' shows up." That may seem funny, but it simplifies the amount of vitriol pointed at this CEO. No growth is allowed unless "Jeff" created it, and all deals are "Jeff's," meaning they're terrible deals for the company and any partners. If the CEO had some experience in management, or if the Board of Directors were to step up to remove him, Dynamics would be at the top of the payments ecosystem, without a doubt. Great technology frustrated by the epitome of a terrible CEO.

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5.0
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Pros

Since day one I have been treated as if I have been part of the team for 10 years. They really understand a work/life balance. The team is great and very helpful. CEO is very knowledgable and shares his knowledge and helps others learn. The enviroment is very team oriented and they take the time to catch everyone up to speed, even with previous projects. Good benefits. Cutting edge industry changing projects.

Cons

Computers could use some updating.

1.0
Oct 3, 2025
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Pros

The people you suffer with are the only highlight

Cons

- The stale/stagnant upper "management" (They're not really management because the CEO micromanages absolutely everything). - The CEO tells everyone they are useless so that they won't feel like they deserve a raise. - The CEO wants to only hire desperate people because, they have no where else to go. - The CEO micromanages everything and prevents engineers from engineering solutions (the whole point of their job) - The CEO has extremely bad "good idea fairy syndrome" where he enacts last second changes to processes, software, equipment, etc. without any input. Those decisions lead to extra support needed on weekends, significantly slowed processes, and pointing fingers at everyone else for being the problem. - The CEO will never admit he makes mistakes, calls you a liar when you call him out and show him evidence, and challenges people to blame him for the issues occuring - I could go on and on, but you have to understand at this point that you shouldn't be working here. Do not believe the fake 'good' reviews on here. The CEO says that Glassdoor is for collecting negative reviews so that Glassdoor can hold the company for ransom to remove all the bad reviews for a large sum of money.

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