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Great people, atrocious management - Anonymous employee dataxu Employee Review

1.0
4 Feb 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Smart engineers and Data Scientists Free food Nice hardware

Cons

Management decisions are driven by desire to innovate rather insuring platform is stable. Turnover and burnout rate is very high because company worships heros.

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dataxu Response
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Thank you for your feedback. It’s really disheartening to hear your feelings on management decisions and burnout. As an executive, I can say unequivocally, upper management is driven by a desire to provide the best experience possible for our customers, which includes a stable, reliable platform that is constantly being improved with unique DataXu innovations. We don’t view either as all or nothing and strive to balance what you see as competing desires. DataXu experiences average voluntary attrition for our industry, and we are always looking for ways to attract and keep our best talent here at DataXu; in fact, we promoted more than 12% of our global workforce in 2015 alone. We’ve also launched a totally revamped manager training experience in 2015 that continues to evolve today, and have experienced excellent feedback and results. I hope this has addressed some of your concerns

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