Upside down pyramid - Anonymous employee Leaf Group Employee Review

3.0
Dec 9, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. Great benefits 2. Used to be a good place to work at. 3. Used to have some really good engineers. I enjoyed working there until late 2014 and after that it was all downhill until I left in 2015. While I was there, the work life balance was great, I always felt appreciated and I was always motivated to give it my 100%. It does throw an insane holiday party and the weekly food catering didn't hurt one bit.

Cons

1. Turned into an upside down pyramid - there is a lot more management than actual workers. I am not sure how the company can turn around with a lot of ideas but not enough people to implement it? 2. A lot of undeserving people are being promoted and are leading teams. Without the requisite knowledge of the domain, how can someone be expected to lead the team? 3. The last few of the good engineers are leaving and hiring people to replace those is a tough job and in some cases no effort was made to replace at all. 4. The HR team is pretty weak - pretty incompetent and not very helpful.

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