"Terrible Excutives, Bloated" - Product Management Recommind Employee Review

1.0
Dec 11, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Quality Middle-Management and individual contributors was good - there are some truly dedicated and friendly individual contributors. The benefits are average, not great but not bad. WFH when necessary was nice but that's table stakes in this day-in-age.

Cons

This is not a start-up - very old company for the amount of dysfunction. They can't figure out how to streamline their revenue stream so they are choppy at best. The executives can't hold a strategy for more than a year in a vertical that is the same. their time to market is ungodly slow due to the global engineering work process and the anything but agile development cycle. The 3+ riffs in the last year explain why they can't get out of their own way. Odds are on this company being acquired for a heavy discount, that eDiscovery industry is brutal to work for and in.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

These are the smartest people I've ever worked with. I work remotely, but from the day I first started, people were kind, mostly helpful, and wanted me to succeed. Today, there is a much better training program than when I started several years ago. The company continues to perfect its eDiscovery offerings, and the marketing programs support our efforts. It's a complex sale, but the company surrounds us with resources to help us succeed.

Cons

Senior management changes focus too rapidly. For the size of the company, we are way too compartmentalized. Too many approvals needed to sell basic deals. Not enough eDiscovery services expertise in senior management--mostly enterprise software backgrounds.

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2.0
Jul 30, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great view located in the heart of the San Francisco Financial District. Free coffee. A few really smart people still left at the company.

Cons

No clear direction or end-game in sight for all the pivoting of vision that is going on. This is troubling to see in a 15 year old company - not a startup folks! Huge ambition, but nothing else backing that up - including funding. Attrition is high due to rounds of "reorganization" and due to skilled personnel moving on to greener pastures. Why is it that everyone else in Silicon Valley is in a hiring frenzy, while Recommind is actually shedding employees? Everyone is overloaded and wearing multiple hats. There is very much a blame culture within the organization globally, with everyone working to protect their own backsides instead of trying to work together to accomplish the goal. There is a lot of corporate bullying to get one's way, and the lower you are on the totem pole, the more crap that will come down on you.

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