- One particular member of the exec team can be incredibly difficult to work with. The “How to Work With Me” doc mentioned in previous reviews is an embarrassment to the purpose of that type of document. It’s a 5-page self-aggrandizing NY Times opinion piece about himself. Here's the summary: he doesn't want to talk about your weekend with you and he's gonna be rich at the end of this all which makes him immune to bias in his decision making. This is the same executive who brags about how comically low he scores on the blue "empathetic" and "compassionate" category in the True Colors personality assessment. Cool.
- Expect emails from said executive to be either a literal one-word response or 1,000-word unsolicited "teaching moments" where he imparts his wisdom upon you, there is no in between.
- Some people in leadership positions care more about making statements and being right at the cost of building effective interdepartmental relationships. It can be very toxic. Lots of other team bashing in the name of "transparency".
- The organization does not understand the concept of prioritization and adhering to processes. Everything is a priority and needs to be done yesterday. It makes it impossible to build and execute on meaningful long-term strategy.
- Go-to-market strategy changes on a weekly basis. Problems are solved by creating another Google Doc that gets lost in everyone's inbox or by putting on a new webinar that only Salsify cares about.
- They are a slave to TAM at the expense core PIM functionality.
- Salsify is where simple, good ideas go to die, only to reincarnate themselves through a series of meetings as an over-engineered process designed and compromised to death by committee.
- HR is a joke. If you bring up an issue you can see the gears moving in their head as to how they can properly mitigate the situation at the corporate level, vs actually solve the problem. Any sense of empathy is so obviously disingenuous and scripted.
