WinMagic reviews about "work environment"

You want to work at WinMagic? Well here's a few things you should know before signing on. 1. If you're not in sales or product, look somewhere else. Don't even bother wasting your time. 2. If you ignore point 1, then be prepared to move at any time. There is no corporate loyalty here at all. Everyone is simply a line item on the budget and completely expendable in order for the company to save a buck. So good luck. 3. Be okay with no corporate culture at all. Zip. Nil. Nada. No company events (except a Christmas party that might happen on alternate years). 4. There is no top down leadership at all, so as a consequence there are no goals to achieve or pillars to strive for. In one word you can describe the work environment here as chaotic. Read other reviews here to understand more about what it's like to work at this company. The majority of them are accurate.

Leadership focuses too much on "vision" and not enough on execution. If you want to work with an innovative or high-growth company, this is not the place. If you're looking for a slower pace and a learning environment, it's a better fit.

Location - Good for people who live on the west end of the city. Lack of process. Improve hiring

So many people are in the CEO's family or close friends. There are also favourites that get promoted for no reason. The majority of them are useless. The CEO seems to be a smart man, but he is also dumb: he is too smart to see how dumb he is. He is a bully who thinks the best way to lead is to have your people afraid of you so that they try hard to please him. If you do not understand, you are stupid and put down by the CEO. He thinks he is the only one that knows anything. The company has been successful in spite of itself, really. Founded in 1997 this company should be at least 3x the size it is now, but despite saying that he wants to grow the company, he has continually ignored the advice on how to do so. This goes back to the narcissistic tendencies of the CEO: if he did not think of it the idea sucks. That is not leadership. Combining this with the above sociopathic nature of being a bully, does not make a great work environment.

Not very stable when I left. But seems better now