Unhappy People, Inexperienced Leadership-Management Team - Anonymous employee Monsoon Employee Review

2.0
Nov 25, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are great specific people that make the company enjoyable to work at. The work-life balance is OK depending on your position. The salary is decent.

Cons

Huge turnover of employees due to unhappiness of leadership and management teams. Many of the roles are due to undeserving attrition, which produces inexperienced leaders. The career path is slim depending on what role you have as you may be the only person who knows how to do your job that no one else in the company understands. There are a few who play the politics game that you may have to watch out for. The book industry has proven difficult to compete in and is a declining industry. Unable to innovate fast enough due to high turnover and inexperience. The culture was one of the best to work in but has lowered in quality due to two lay-offs within a year and numerous management and leadership changes. The company cares to encourage people to work only to have them produce more results in comparison to actually caring about their well-being. There is too much job responsibility on one person. The benefits and 401k are bad.

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Cons

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2.0
Mar 30, 2016
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Pros

The people are great. They are smart and friendly and generally willing to help out when they can. The benefits are above average. Work schedule is flexible with regard to working from home when needed. You can have dogs in the office.

Cons

Management has not demonstrated the ability to maintain focus on a single plan for the future. Much of the downward spiral that was the last two years I would attribute to the constant thrashing of priorities as everyone was changing focus to work on the "new" big thing. The end result was that nothing got accomplished and all of the products were left woefully behind the competition. Communication is not as transparent as it could be. In a company this small, it is critical to keep everyone in the loop of what is happening. This was not always the case. Often things were simply not shared. Other times only half truths were shared or data was misrepresented. No one is asking to be at the table with the executives. All the employees are looking for is open communication about the direction of the company and the plans for the future.

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