Pros
Some of the employees are very good and smart people. There is no innovation in the vending industry so this is the only new thing that's come out in a while. We get some free lunches now and there is ample space in the offices. Very quite work environment and everyone gets to leave the office at around 4.
Cons
Where do I start. It is the most dysfunctional company ever. The CEO has no idea how to run his company and he's managed out anyone who doesn't do exactly as he says or they resign because he makes it known that it's his way or no way. I've watched him throw everyone under the bus for his failures ( his own admin, his family, other execs, customers, contractors, you name it!) he claims to everyone that the company is doing good when it's not. There are annoucements about non-existing "wins". We have a lot of complaining customers but any word about how to fix the problems are forbidden. It's like he does not live in a world of reality. I've seen so many people come and go. There are only like 4 people who've lasted over a year. We've had weeks where someone quits everyday. It's never announced but it's a small company and we all know. He's also laid off whole offices and groups for no reason. Most of the company has complained to HR but even that lady only lasted a few months before she left too. The CFO and the COO also left after only a few months. The company is not doing well yet he won't let anyone make decisions that wasn't his idea. Every month he has meetings to talk about himself or some other useless thing, he never talks about revenue or growth and when asked, he tells the whole company we make money yet at other times he says we are not. Our scrum meetings are him just talking and making decisions. The product person just plays by his rules, Nothing, I mean nothing happens in the company without him making the decision. Yes, he decides what's for lunch, what color an icon should be, what snacks we should have. It's so restrictive and employees are not allowed to express opinion. All hands meetings are just him talking while others roll thier eyes. He calls himself " Dr." and starts his conversations with " I have a ph.d" despite it being from some online university that anyone can get in a few weeks. He publishes articles about himself and how he runs the company that are completely made up. You will never meet another person that's as conceited. Check out our website and every piece of our marketing material, it's just extensive pictures of him ( done by him and not our marketing person, because she left after a few months too!) Search his name and endless articles about how he was fired from his last start up will appear. The whole community knows he was fired because no one can work with him. It's very reflective of the situation here. The product is promising but has a lot of problems. Customers and vendors complain yet they are ignored. The feedback is public, you can't pretend it's not there. As much is swept under the rug as possible. Our presence at trade shows are awkward. People come up to us for freebies and no one cares about the product. We need to do better planning especially for the big this month. And we need to not sell things that don't exist. People lost a lot of faith in us because we started selling things that we have not developed a year in advanced, and never delivered, Our suffering sales people need a full time professional leader, yet they get a part time contractor.
