DTEN Reviews

1) Weak Leadership +Poor Communicators: they passive-aggressively address perceived employee performance issues, and may even terminate someone "suddenly" without any coaching or performance efforts. +Volatile Personalities: the Founder/CEO often yells at people, even if he doesn't mean it (he blames his Chinese culture and a language barrier). +Condescending and Arrogant CMO: speaks down to people in the office, leads by fear and intimidation, and spends more time pontificating than listening. +Micromanaging: at every level, C-suite does not empower teams to do their jobs. C-suite also seems to refuse to bring in experienced mid-management and other leadership to own growing various teams. +No Empathy: Founder/CEO is polarizing. +No Leadership Skills: Founder/CEO leads by fear and intimidation and can have explosive anger. Unable to motivate, inspire or effectively organize teams. +Weak Business Acumen: they don't seem to know how to run a business, and it impacts the business and people's ability to do their jobs. "DTEN" is a new company from the former DisplayTen brand, but it's hard to think they're different. +Leadership will hurt the company before the competition would. 2) Poor Culture +In a word: chaos. +Chinese Origin: Founder/CEO expects all employees to work 24/7/365, with no respect of PTO, weekends, or after-hours. +Low Employee Morale: employees are less engaged and committed - they never speak up, even those who have been around for over a year. +Not allowed to work from home...but people (even leadership themselves) sometimes do anyway. +No accountability for employees, no consistency from management. +Managers don't set expectations, so people trip over each other in trying to understand what they're supposed to do and how. +I wouldn't recommend my own friends or family to work here with me. 3) Fiscally Irresponsible +Won't invest in tools or equipment to support basic employee job functions (or success). +Keeps company health and insights secret. +Overly stringent on some expenses, and questionably loose in other aspects. 4) Weak Compensation +Stock options are only given to the top, and select employees. +Employees are not paid at market-competitive rates. +Benefits are decent. +"Unlimited PTO" is highly scrutinized and management will question your work-ethic and job-performance for all PTO requests. Even for 1-day requests.

The CEO is clueless, inexperienced, rages, throws childish temper tantrums and can't make good business decisions. Makes the same speeches over and over and no-one understands the points he is making. Untruthful and unethical. Disrespectful. Will limit any chance at company and product success. Won't tell people where investment comes from. Won't allow working from home EVER or life balance. Doesn't care about our feedback or knowledge. Flips out over ridiculous, little and bizarre things. Does not lead by example - his rules don't apply to himself. No accountability for his poor performance or lack of company/product success. Expected to sacrifice health, wellness and family for company, with no kindness or reward in return. Compensation sucks and only top receives stock. Office working conditions are terrible. Company won't pay for proper tools and equipment so people can do their jobs or be productive. Won't even pay for proper desks and chairs. So people often sick and or in pain. Not many company lunches. No team events are allowed. Bad morale. No-one manages or coaches. Direction is confusing and inconsistent. Employees confused about how to do their jobs successfully. No investment in training or development. No praise or recognition - always criticism. CTO can't make working or reliable products, but wants to financially penalize and fire people who are only following company process and direction and trying to take care of upset customers. Can't manage his own team but points finger at others. He and CEO creating culture of fear and intimidation. Not at all an American or Silicon Valley tech company. Product concept is ok so this is all very sad for future.