SharkNinja reviews

Serious Chaos. 1. Culture - This company desperately needs a cultural reset. Executive leadership micro manages everything, putting little to no trust in the employees that they hire. The CEOs ego is beyond inflated and he often berates employees in weekly meetings. Middle management spends all of their time making executives happy vs listening to or advocating for their team. This creates an incredibly toxic work environment where employees don’t feel value in the work they are producing, then feel constant pressure to preform and appease leadership even more. It also creates a “pointing the finger” culture where no one wants to take responsibility for mistakes and cross functional teams are often blaming or undercutting each other. 2. Work Life Balance - The answer is you won’t have any. Again because there is so much pressure to perform and show leadership progress it puts everyone is under constant pressure to show massive product improvements WoW. The team easily dedicates 10+ hours per week to creating material to prove to the executive team that we are doing our jobs. This takes away from the time actually needed and therefore causes you to work overtime. Further their is an expectation that you are available at all hours for your international colleagues. Expect daily meetings at 7am with UK associates and 10 pm meetings with China associates. A 12 hour workday would be light. It puts so much pressure on the employees it ruins relationships. I seriously felt myself becoming a meaner person to the people around me because of the stress of this job. 3. Strategy/Vision - The product approach is extremely short sighted. Products have a self life of 1-2 years MAX. The company is so focused on churning out new products to “gain market share” they are not concerned about their long term feasibility, environmental impact, or user satisfaction. Every new product idea is based on stealing original technology from competitors or pre-developed products in other markets. The development cycle is too short (unreasonable) to invest in innovation or true progress. It can feel very soulless and more like a cash grab than a product with purpose. 4. Inconsistent Values - Leadership often doesn’t practice what they preach in terms of strategy. They will emphasize sustainability and then walk that back when it is more expensive. They will say simplify and then push you to add more. It is very common to see combatting and constantly shifting view points. They will tell you to act faster and feel empowered to make your own decisions and then get frustrated when they don’t have visibility into the smallest details. It is EXTREMELY exhausting. Especially when your perspective is not valued and you are under pressure to move faster. 5. Career Growth - There are NO core competencies, NO formal reviews and NO clear objectives for career growth. Your fate depends on 2 things. Your direct manager and how good you are at taking executives orders. If your direct manager is a decent, levelheaded person you may see more success vs your peers for the same performance. If they expect more from you (for no clear reason) you will be stalled. If your manager changes you’re simply out of luck. People who get promoted just say yes to executives regardless of the magnitude. Executive requests often put the team in a tail spin, have little impact on the user, are unjustified and are an egregious waste of time but rest assured you will spend 100% of your time making the leaders happy or you will be seen as under performing. This company is built on yes men.

Every team within the organization is in a constant state of confusion because there's no processes at any level. The confusion of what to do and next steps and all of the time wasted is "jokingly" referred to as "controlled chaos" but that couldn't be less true. In no way whatsoever is it "controlled, complete opposite. For a lack of better terms, it is one big messwith a bunch of great people that are given no direction & setup to fail.