Pros
Some (few remaining) good people, good purpose and nice and engaged volunteers. Good salary. WFH.
Cons
Several points: - toxic and throat cutting culture. - management by fear and retaliation. Everyone is scared of the executives, especially the CEO who confuses management with authoritarianism. Have seen people (sometimes senior people) leaving meetings with him in tears. He quoted Elon Musk… says it all. - lack of respect and recognition. Only yes-sayers are well perceived. - The whole marketing strategy is aimed at promoting personally the CEO and few executives, who barely know what they are talking about when it comes to the core business (neither do I, but I admit I’m not a PM), and they don’t use SMEs from the community, putting themselves on front stage. - Trust, motivation and engagement among employees have been totally destroyed. People stay for the money. - CEO himself admitted that barely 40% of employees have confidence in leadership. (Probably the 40% of employees who answered positively knowing the survey was not anonymous at all). - Total misalignment between the outside perception and internal reality. Total misalignment between what is being said and the actions (psychological safety, management practices, etc.). - CEO performance is actually bad, the number of certification holders and members is growing naturally for years at a constant pace despite any of his actions. Big investments into AI (CEO’s pet project) and acquisitions that have led to no additional growth. Headcount keeps growing without any corresponding growth of revenue. The natural growth of the organization is still based on the PMP only and keeps the same trend for more than 20 years. No additional acceleration in revenue growth whatsoever since the latest CEO joined, despite of total turnover among the organization’s leadership, big empty announcements and shiny communication. - Keeps talking about « raising the floor » (whatever it means), but only for regular workers, not leadership obviously… and we have to face daily issues of our team members without being able to report any concerns from them or ourselves because we would face retaliation, and without the ability to support them because resources are allocated on random basis (working on pet projects) or favoritism.
