Matterport Reviews

Matterport's C-level leadership is inept and immature, and therefore passively destructive to the future of the company. The CEO doesn't believe in planning more than a quarter at a time, and even then he spontaneously re-prioritizes the not-quite finalized plans whenever he sees something shiny on the horizon. The executive leadership team is never in alignment, but they all pretend they are in team meetings. Getting them to commit to OKRs or a roadmap is like herding feral cats. The strategy to increase revenue relies on laying off 25-30% of the company annually. By contrast, in 2021 the CEO was paid $157.9 million, which is more than the $136.1 million company revenue generated, according to an article published on 24/7 Wall Street on May 5, 2023. This is not a healthy company with a bright future, or really any future at all.

Where to start? The annual layoffs have pretty much killed any morale there was left in the company. People work to not be noticed and hope to survive the next year. Rather than doing what they can to trim costs (which there is a lot of waste going on) and retain the top talent, they just cut. Executives won't take a pay cut even for the good of the people there. The executive leadership throughout the company has no ability to focus and plan a roadmap. And when a plan does finally come to fruition, they only follow it for a short time, thus leading to confusion and lack of trust in the people who are tasked with fulfilling the roadmap. Creating new features for the applications was very difficult as there has been no refactor since the day the product was born. You build one thing and it breaks three others. Product management was too focused on delivering the next new shiny feature versus making what existed stable and reliable. Toxicity, turf wars, and backstabbing is not uncommon among the ranks. In short, unless you only need employment for a year, this company is not one to land at for any fulfilling career step.