Horrific management - Anonymous employee KAYAK Employee Review

2.0
Aug 5, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Strong business model, excellent growth potential. Dedicated peers and colleagues. Fun, generous CEO.

Cons

C-level executives are astonishingly bad at management. Google them and you will find proof. Their personal lives bleed into their professional work. The CFO and CMO are married. The CFO also runs HR. All misbehavior from C-level personnel is ignored. No regard for human resources policies, protocols, career development. Employees are disillusioned. Morale is low, and good people are quitting by the day.

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Slow mobility: Trying to get promoted felt like a moving goalpost—the expectations changed every six months and made it nearly impossible to get to the next step. Even then, the business was stingy about who gets promoted, which was incredibly discouraging after years of trying to prove myself.

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