A horrendous management failure hidden behind a smokescreen of success - Product Manager Geotab Employee Review

2.0
Jan 13, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Seemingly good culture - Decent benefits - Progressive for a large company - Everyone seems to be highly motivated - Good CEO and company vision, EXTREMELY poor execution - Nice offices - Snacks - Most people are nice - Geotab has been blessed by luckily acquiring companies that had truly amazing people and who have positively impacted Geotab

Cons

- Terrible pay, terrible career path, terrible promotions. Once you join expect to earn the same amount for many years. - They force you to take the "Best Managed Companies" survey then brag about they got the certification. This company is many things, but well managed is not one of them. - Management positions are all taken by inexperienced early employees who abuse their positions, lack leadership and vision, are childish, and are terrible managers. Nice place at the beginning but VERY TOXIC as time goes on. - They give out Associate VP titles like they're samples at Costco, to all the most unqualified people, just to keep up with external appearances. - Too many cooks in the kitchen. Every time the CEO has a townhall meeting everyone gets super motivated and everyone feels empowered, but without proper guidance, organizational structure, cross-functional teamwork, most teams end up running like headless chickens, doing overlapping or opposing work to other teams. - Company is focused on closing out deals with an emphasis in speed, while having a poor execution and no scalability, but then the rest of the company is focused on building red tape around every process, pushback and little interest in other team's priorities. There's no clear company wide direction. - Every new executive and sr. manager wants to be the star of the show and they all keep creating unnecessary and unfocused work for the organization. - Will most likely see high turn-over rate in the upcoming years. - Constant (true) rumours of harassment.

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Geotab Response
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Thank you for your candid review. We value all feedback as we strive to continuously evaluate and improve our practices, processes and procedures in order to provide the best possible employee experience. Our team is here to listen and take appropriate action related to your concerns. We would like to discuss your feedback further - please reach out to our confidential email address, hrfeedback@geotab.com. -The Geotab HR Team

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