Going Downhill - Senior Product Manager Natera Employee Review

2.0
Jul 6, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Some really great people -Flexible remote work and PTO -Budget for professional education -Cool technology

Cons

-Management constantly pivoting regardless of collateral and lost work it causes -Far more focus put on growth into future than sustainability of current systems, leading to growing back-end issues -Lack of input from actual working teams on product direction -Muddled responsibilities and general attitude of "not my problem" on multiple teams when potentially critical mistakes or oversights are brought up -Unrealistic, continually-shifting deadlines that are not clearly communicated or updated between teams on interdisciplinary projects -Unprofessional behavior exhibited by multiple members of upper management (taking out issues on random employees, harsh language in moments that could be constructive) -Disconnect between engineering capabilities and product requirements causing unrealistic project proposals when compared with what there is capability to implement -Lack of communication between products and platforms leading to duplicate solution implementation -Leadership keeps burning cash on expensive, clunky solutions with unused bells and whistles for things that could be built in house for cheaper -Terrifyingly disorganized DB architecture -Glut of useless update meetings wasting time from multiple departments in both prep and time spent siting in said meetings that could be used far more productively -Large pay discrepancies between employees on the same level -Turnover issues due to cons

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