Pros
fast moving and growing company, better branding now more than ever, constantly changing and challenging environment
Cons
HR - Gossip. This is part of your initiation and this is what will happen if you talk to her. Chooses to be professional sometimes then chooses to be unprofessional at other times but she's secretive about it. Someone once told me that the first 4 hours of their first day was spent hearing about the negative things about everyone in the office. It makes you feel sorry for her in her personal life and wonder about her journey to get to where she is...maybe she is unloved? Executive team - Very emotional, they throw people under the bus and some also take recognition from their employees. Lots of backstabbing happens in this team too. How it affects employees? Sometimes you have to take a side. Instead of working as a team to get things done, you have to deal with emotional challenges of grown men with peter pan syndrome. Priorities are constantly changing...if you don't like what's happening this week, just wait til next week. Everyone in leadership around the CEO has motives for what they do and they tell him EVERYTHING...they never just want to help you, you have to read between the lines and "use" their strengths and know when to cut them off. If you don't do that, they will tell everyone that you don't know what you're doing instead of helping you learn. Here it is better to tell everyone you know everything, otherwise they will tell everyone you know nothing. Product management/professional services - Good people and super smart but overwhelmed. they can't deliver on time because there is just too much on their plate. Customers are unhappy because they are trying to move so far ahead when the product just isn't ready. When you talk in circles within the MDM industry, Riversand is known for overpromising and underdelivering...past customers and partners have said that. Gartner still rates them with a great vision and lack of execution because of this. Regarding my leaving...the last person I talked to about my unhappiness a few weeks before leaving just about tore me up when he said he couldn't do anything about it...so I left because I was mentally drained, lied to and people were taking my career into a direction I didn't want it to go. If you do decide to work here, just work away from the office. Your mental health is better off if you don't have to be in this toxic environment.