Four Winds Interactive reviews

- Due to exceptionally fast growth, processes and resource availability have been challenges that have required extra work and can be a source of stress. (That effort and stress is consistently rewarded and is to be expected due to the explosive growth the company is going through.)

New leadership came in needing to make changes and show impact. Some ideas were good and necessary. Others neglected FWI’s true strengths. When new leaders came in, it was difficult to get answers and hence, discern priorities. Were the priorities: •Onboarding new parts of FWI core products in a part of the business that still has lots of “legacy” built-in? •Integrating entirely new products, process and teams as consecutively merging two (now three) companies and working teams, or: •Stability (maintenance, support and improvement of current customer footprint) in a time of global crisis? Ideally, it’s obviously all three (simultaneously)… but support, follow-up, or answers (on anything: new process & products, historic stuff, accounting or contract challenges, technical escalations, growth opps, client or partner queries, etc) took an unreasonable amount of time (if acknowledged at all). As someone who had been a remote employee for nine years, in 2021, FWI felt even more opaque than I had come to expect. We needed clear goals and responses to queries with defined ownership for who should be getting them to us. Numerous leadership changes contributed to my departure, along with a general lack of opportunity for growth. Integration of three companies has meant combining three leadership structures in to one. We were told there would be new opportunities as the org combined. My team and I were then placed in a random part of the org. We spent some time trying to adapt, but I didn’t have faith that things would improve in the short-term with further changes in leadership that were made late last year.