Post IPO company growing pains - Anonymous employee Natera Employee Review

Founding team is still trying to run the company as an old boys club instead of embracing the talent brought in post-IPO. Promotion criteria, annual goals, and performance metrics unclear. Favored individual contributors have been promoted to management positions with little evidence of leadership, business acumen, or even proficiency in their functional roles. Company culture embodies the Silicon Valley stereotype of youthful arrogance. Software managers perpetuate this stereotype by overstepping boundaries, assuming that technology expertise translates to commercial success. Additionally, software managers have a disproportionate voice on the senior management team, which allows them to shelter their teams at the expense of other functions. This results in a love/hate bifurcation: people in the protected groups will give the company five stars and people in the unprotected groups will give unfavorable reviews on Glassdoor.