toxic environment but had some amazing people - Software Developer iSpot.tv Employee Review

iSpot suffers from the classic founder CEO problem. The company tried to scale but the CEO held it back. iSpot should be building software as defined by its customers but too often the CEO came in and just told everyone what to do and by when (it was never anywhere near enough time to build something good and scales). CEO is a micromanager who sat with engineers and told them what to code. Its demoralizing since his ideas were thin for this stage of the company, where the stakes and expectations were higher. To make it worse he was condescending a lot of the time so people generally avoided him. He truly thought he was the smartest person in every room.