Dead-end company, extremely poor new CEO - Anonymous employee Data I/O Employee Review

1.0
9 Aug 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Lots of nice people at staff level and in production - Used to have reputation for work-life balance and decent benefits, but most pros eliminated by new CEO

Cons

- Company is in a no growth market and CEO has no strategy, only talks about himself and what he did ~20 years ago (incessantly) - New CEO manages by impulsive, random edicts and publicly degenerated team members - New CEO not at all focused - No clear requirements for engineers - New CEO doesn't understand product development or engineering, knows little to nothing about software development - New CEO doesn't appear to have ever built and supported a product - Company cuts costs on benefits, PTO, flexibility to make up for lack of growth and no viable strategy from new CEO - Company's tech and current market is a dead end, so are careers there

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5.0
31 Mar 2023
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Pros

Good work life balance. Nice pay and bonus on years the company is profitable.

Cons

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1.0
22 Sept 2025
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Pros

Colleagues below the executive level are collaborative, supportive, and genuinely enjoyable to work with.

Cons

- Not even the CEO knows what’s going on - The CEO blatantly lies to staff and doubles down even when challenged

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