Secondmind Machine Learning Engineer/Team Lead reviews

- Management is confused and the company is becoming top heavy. Decisions are often passed down from on high without visibility to the true reasoning (management say they are working on this but I'm yet to see change) - People are often moved from project to project with little to no warning (there's a history of this happening while people are on holiday). - Communication between management and ICs is confused. - Opinions are said to be welcomed and considered but it often seems that disagreement with proposals is not accepted.

• Management seem to keep making the same mistakes, ignoring feedback from employees, and then when things fail they will say that the problems were unforeseeable. • There's been two sets of redundancies in a 7 month period. During this, management has tended to be unaffected, or have received title bumps. • Low morale had led to a major brain drain of the best talent at the company. The company is around half the size that it was a year prior, and continues to shrink. • Constant restructures, imposed top-down. • Little avenue for growth. While this isn't unusual for small companies, Secondmind had used "number of promotions" as a metric when deciding who to make redundant, ignoring the fact that it's easy to get in a position where you cannot be promoted unless your boss quits.