When I joined Teikametrics there was a clear vision effectively conveyed to the employees. I felt like we were a market leader with potential to become dominant in the field. Unfortunately, a series of bad management decisions and kinda absent CEO has changed my opinion - the product's functionality has fallen behind the competitors and prior company culture has disappeared.
After the prior CTO’s departure a little more than a year ago, the engineering team was shifted in its reporting to product leadership. A new engineering leader wasn't hired until November and even now, engineering leadership reports to product. The imbalance between product and engineering interests has led to each team operating as a silo instead of working together to improve the product. Product leadership sets unreasonable project deadlines while consistently failing to consider input from engineers on realistic timelines. This dysfunctional management has led to a recent exodus of many long tenured key players.
The recent spate of employees leaving the company was one of the two primary factors in my decision to leave. With each departure, work was simply assigned to the remaining engineers with no job title or compensation change commensurate with the additional responsibilities. The company launched a new annual review cycle this year with annual promotions and raises to be announced by mid February. As of mid April, engineers still hadn’t received their results and leadership refused to commit to any timeline to fix it. The path to promotion is also not clearly defined at Teikametrics - performance metrics are in continuous flux as product priorities frequently shift mid quarter.
While the above stated reasons were enough for me to pursue other opportunities, the primary reason I left Teikametrics is the unequitable treatment received by female engineers. Team members reported issues almost immediately with the new engineering leadership; another employee even described leadership's actions as gaslighting. After trying to make the best of a bad situation, I brought my concerns about the gender based discrimination to engineering leadership. I was extremely disappointed to learn from the Chief People Officer that my concerns were never brought to her attention by engineering leadership. They ignored the problem and did not address my concern as any respectable company would through normal HR processes. In effect, they buried my concern. Leadership talks of diversity as a priority - that was not my experience.
The combination of the poor leadership at Teikametrics and more importantly, my personal experience being judged by my personal attributes rather than my performance gives me no choice but to strongly recommend avoiding this company to job seekers.
