sinking ship with clueless management - Solutions Architect Confluent Employee Review

This company used to be an amazing place to work.But after the IPO it completely lost course. They have so many useless middle managers it almost feels like there are more managers than actual tech workers. The middle managers job is to all day politics and mess up life of the workers. All they hire in US are sales people and they hardly hire any engineers in US anymore. And you can already see the lack of innovation in the product. I still don't understand why customers buy this overpriced junk over MSK or other cloud provider products. The management is clueless, they go and invest billions of dollars on pet projects like the Flink and cant execute it properly as they don't have good engineers any more. Flink offering is multi million dollar disaster and no one is buying it. The stock has been in the gutter for a long time, and it adds insult to injury to shareholders if you look at the sheer waste that the company continuously does for sales and marketing. they will randomly have useless events to fly in everyone from allover the world just to get drunk. they will randomly distribute RSUs like its free candy and dilute the stock, while their top management continuously sell off all their holdings . there is absolutely no fiscal discipline in this company. If you want to party , do politics, talk cliches and don't care about you skill growth this is the place for you, and if you are not run away from Confluent as fast as you can