Hostile Environment Due to CEO/Owner - Anonymous employee Tom Sawyer Software Employee Review

Thank you for taking the time to write a review. The CEO is the most experienced at Tom Sawyer Software, given that he founded the company and has worked there for more than twenty years. He is hands on and works at both a high level and at a detailed operation level as well. This attention, and the similar attention from other staff, has protected and built the company, and is necessary. It has also helped Tom Sawyer Software to become the top producer of graph visualization and analysis software in the world today - the first great company in the field - and to supply to organizations in many different industries. Our company has a culture of high standards, uncompromising continuous improvement, and work style that requires precision and attention to detail. We have developed cross-functional processes and systems through systematic development. We have also built our own information systems, structured file systems, wikis, and complex, data-driven websites, and are exploring the use of our own software for more operational functions. Tom Sawyer Software has many talented, appreciated, and respected managers and staff that thrive in this environment, and their ideas are valued and adopted when appropriate. Many of these staff have worked five, ten, or fifteen years with the company. They have the technical skill to do the work and use the systems and methods developed at the company. Successful staff members do not resist the requirement for continuous improvement and high-quality reviewed and approved work. Sometimes a manager or staff member joins Tom Sawyer Software from another company where there have been strong vertical silos and nearly completely independent departments that pick and choose what quality standards to have. Tom Sawyer Software does not function this way. At times, it is necessary for the CEO to insert himself or other managers into a department's work in order to improve what was perceived as uneven work quality, to improve consistency, or to address work practice problems.