Great Company Going Downhill Fast - Account Manager Undertone Employee Review

Any reviews here dated before 2015 apply to Undertone as it used to be. Things have changed drastically in the past year, due to changes in top management. • When Mike Cassidy stepped down as COO in mid-2014, things started downhill fast. His genuineness, honesty and ever-present encouraging personality set the tone for great teamwork and deeply motivated employees. But the culture now reflects the aggressive, competitive, cagey personality of the new COO, Corey Ferengul. When Mike passed through your department, people felt charged up and happy. When Corey passes through, people tense up and feel deflated. That says a lot. • Even the good people at Undertone are now focussed on watching their backs and succeeding at one another's expense. Great managers with creative minds and inspiring leadership qualities have been replaced by stressed-out, whip-cracking managers afraid to displease the COO. • Many of the best people have left or been let go for not fitting in with this harsher atmosphere. Work-life balance gets worse each year. • The heart of the problem is the CEO and the management team he brought in from his previous role. Many of them are talented and sincere, but no one seems willing to challenge the COO or tell him how much damage he is doing. • Finally, HR used to be one of the best, seemed to truly be of-the-employees and for-the-employees. But now that department seems to exist mainly to spin bad news as good news. not to help employees and make conditions better. Benefits are worse than they used to be, and people are afraid to air complaints with HR, fearing that HR will stamp them as troublemakers who need to be let go. HR now seems to be there mainly to reduce benefits a little more each year and to paint rosy pictures. The HR staff used to be proactively helpful. Now they tend to keep their distance from other departments. Again, a reflection of the change in management's overall personality.