Poor Leadership - Anonymous employee Evergage Employee Review

1.0
12 Feb 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Product could have promise if further developed.

Cons

Leadership has no loyalty to employees, high turnover of key executives. Watched several C-level and Director level executives treated very poorly resulting in high turnover. Leadership treated employees as expendable on a whim. Constantly changed product direction without marketing testing.

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Evergage Response
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This is Andy Zimmerman, CMO of Evergage, responding. After reading this review, I felt compelled to respond to correct multiple inaccuracies. (1) We have not had high turnover of executives or of employees generally. I have been with the company since 2014, during which time we’ve had 5 executives (VP and C-level) join the company and only one departure in early 2016. The leadership team has been stable and continues to expand. This information can all be verified on LinkedIn. (2) We have not changed product direction in over 4 years. We provide a platform for real-time personalization and continue to add capabilities to support real-time personalization. There has been no direction change at all. This can be verified by looking at our press releases over the last few years. (3) Leadership does not treat employees as expendable, nor has Karl Wirth ever spoken poorly of a current or past employee at a company meeting. The first of the company’s core values (which originated with Karl and our other co-founder when the company was started) is “Ethics & Integrity.” The second core value is “People – Hire the Best and Treat them Well.” We publish the company’s core values on our website; they are posted conspicuously on big, bright prints in the office; and they form the basis for all employee performance evaluations and hiring decisions. Karl talks about our core values all the time, especially at company meetings. He has never nor would ever speak badly about past employees in a company meeting. If he did speak about people this way, the whole company would call him out on it! And no leader or manager in the organization would ever treat an employee as “expendable on a whim.” Employees have been terminated for poor performance, of course, but only after working with them over time to try to help them improve. I do not know the poster's motivation for this review, but please consider all the other reviews, come in and meet us, learn about our culture and core values, ask tough questions, and see for yourself what Evergage is really all about.

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Cons

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Pros

Evergage is a very special place to work. Independent of redefining how the world experiences the internet and having some of the sharpest engineers in the market- at it's core, Evergage is humble. Everyone at the company has an aptitude for success in their respective role- with little / no ego attached. The culture that co-founders, Karl and Greg, have created encourages everyone, regardless of title, to address leadership when he / she has an idea. The culture at Evergage to me is like one big friend group who are on the same mission every day. When we all go grab a drink across the street on Friday at 5, it isn't because we 'have to,' it's because we want to. I really feel like the opportunity at Evergage in our market and in my career is endless. Evergage has a 'get your work done' mentality. The company is really flexible... No one makes you feel bad if you need to come in late or leave early. Evergagers don't call self-identify as 'Karl's kids' for nothing... Our CEO is super genuine, inspiring, natural born leader, and a pleasure to work for.

Cons

Everything is changing all of the time: new hires, processes, sales territories, tech stack, etc... It's the nature of a growing startup in a competitive space. A lot of the time, we are doing things for the first time, which means that we can make mistakes. However, it also means, that everyone in the company has the opportunity to help shape what the future looks like.

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