Dedicated Employee Base Transforming an Ed Tech SaaS Company - Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer XAP Employee Review

5.0
May 3, 2019
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Pros

After years under an older shareholder base who was unwilling to invest in the business, XAP merged with an exciting machine-based learning company that helps people find their best-fit careers and is backed by a multi-billion investor. Even so, under prior ownership we made a lot of progress on modernizing our approach and improving our products without any shareholder investment. With our new merger, we are really poised to succeed and are excited to develop the next gen of our primary career exploration & planning solution. So it's an exciting time!

Cons

We need to grow our team and it can be hard to find the right people. As with any merger, integration can be frustrating at times and never seems to go as quickly as hoped. Nevertheless, XAP has never been better positioned for the future.

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5.0
Jan 9, 2024
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Pros

Loved working with the XAP team

Cons

Every company has issues, but I have no cons about working at XAP

2.0
Nov 2, 2009
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Pros

A large percentage of the employees are kind, interesting, engaging, smart people of good character. Your role will not be limited to the "traditional" tasks associated with your job title - you will have the opportunity (necessity) to reach beyond those and contribute in other areas also.

Cons

You will not be rewarded or even acknowleged for exceptional performance. Management has been in total chaos for at least 5 years and remains so today. They do not have a plan - nor do they communicate decisions effectively to employees. There is no accountability at the Executive level - instead, their responsibilities are pushed down to the middle managers without commensurate authority to make decisions or produce outcomes. Getting a policy decision that is comprehensible is impossible. Senior Management will not remove barriers to progress, nor attend to the fundamentals necessary to enable middle and lower level employees to achieve good outcomes. Management will violate your trust, as was done with the December 2009 and June 2010 bonuses, which were not paid - and there was no communication of this intent by management until they were already overdue. The executive team simply does not respect employees, nor any contract that is signed. Getting management to deliver what has been promised in a contract with a customer is nearly impossible, so you will always be stuck between an exasperated and hostile customer and an incompetent, irresponsible Executive.

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