Hopper reviews

* First time managers are not equipped to handle their teams, leading to fumbled projects and increased anxiety around what could be easy wins. * The CEO constantly gets too in the weeds on projects and upends steady progress with never ending pipe dreams. He has an aggressive and manic communication style that leads people to move too quickly and create unscalable solutions in order to meet his unrealistic requests. He is a fantastic salesmen and uses his powers to bully people into doing things against their better judgement. * There have been constant reorganizations, leaving talented people stranded. * Bad communication from the top down. Everyone takes a childish and gossip driven approach to communicating company wide announcements. Being "in the know" becomes invaluable currency to navigating the workplace eco-system. * A lot of in-betweeners who were vital at earlier stages start to lose their footing because no one has experience scaling a company successfully.

1. Rampant nepotism and need to be in the 'In crowd' to climb the career ladder 2. Misallocation of power, it's not clear who is in charge. A colleague in Marketing department can someone start driving the Product Roadmap, and the Product person on the Operational side of things. 3. A lot of baby-sitting the management team, from middle manager 4. Just had our numbers out, and I don't know how we are going to make the numbers we are promising our investors. 5. Poor practices - teams like Product to Ops , really don't have solid management practices in place as most of the people in these teams are 'home grown'. I would say Dev and Eng in comparison, has their stuff put together (though just relative to the rest of the company). 6. Go work for other hotter startups instead - plenty in the area.