Poor Leadership, Poor Management & investment required! - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij DataSift

1,0
16 feb 2011
Anonieme werknemer
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Pluspunten

You do get some cool gadgets when you start there but only if you are developer. No one else matters to the company or it's management team. You can tweet and use facebook at work but be warned they change the rules from underneath you. If you like working in a silo this is a great place to work!

Minpunten

The company is disorganized, has no direction, mangement is virtually zero and their focus is on technical masterpieces and not on making money. There is no strategy being lead from the senior management team and the company desperately needs VC funding. The product is not unique and as a result there are competitors in the US that are more forward thinking with a better leadership team so they need to look after their staff and provide the benefits and services that you would expect form a company of this size looking to make waves.

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12y
I cannot argue whether or not this was valid feedback in 2011 since it was before I joined DataSift, but a lot has changed since the!. DataSift is well funded; having received a $15MM series B round in November 2012 and a $42MM series C round in November 2013. A SVP of Marketing has recently been hired to lead the marketing function and address some of the points mentioned about unique value proposition, etc. Finally, salaries have risen to be very competitive in the marketplace and additional benefits are in the works. More details soon.

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5,0
15 jun 2015
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Pluspunten

One of the more interesting places I've worked. Lots of opportunity to carve out what you want to do - a young company without a lot of bureaucratic overhead. If you're looking for a place with rigid oversight, keep looking. If you're interested in somewhere you can explore new aspects of your career and learn quickly, then you'll be happy here. Work/life balance is taken seriously here. If something comes up that needs your time or attention away from work, HR and Management will support you. Managers are encouraged to keep employees from burning out, and there's always something fun going on (Friday socialization in the office, monthly outings, etc). Folks here are great about personal growth, training, and continuing education. If you want to learn something new, they'll support you. This is a big plus in my book.

Minpunten

The challenge of working with teams in the UK, New York and San Francisco can mean some days are long, or sometimes meetings fall at inconvenient times. Communication is email-heavy, but that beats 7am conference calls. As the company grows, growing pains are natural. Some roles can feel like they need just a bit more than one person, but not quite two, and that's tough. Sometimes it feels like there's nothing to do, followed by a wave of far-too-much. But that's life in a startup, right?

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2,0
17 jan 2016
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Pluspunten

Hot space, product works, agreement with Facebook

Minpunten

No front end on the product requires client to be a big data specialist and as such can't be used at the desk across the business easily. Horrible culture, arrogant managers, cast system mentality, overpriced, several unqualified managers that are flat out comical

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10y
I don’t know when you left us, so it’s hard to respond to your specifics without this context. You are right, that 2015 was a big year of transition for us, with Twitter departing as a partner and Facebook (in addition to our 20+ existing partners) partnering with us. I wish “catching a break” was as easy as you make it sound. Reality is: the harder you work, the luckier you get. You are 100% correct on your comment re: “no front end.. can’t be used across the business easily”. We’re don’t serve end-users directly. Think of DataSift as the "Intel Inside” the social analytics industry. Our technology is embedded into commercial applications (some are here http://datasift.com/partners/) that serve end brands. This gives us the ability to partner with a social network and rapidly serve every brand on the planet through our network of partners. Your comments re: unqualified/arrogant managers is tough to answer in the generic but noted. With offices in the UK (primarily engineering) and US (primarily sales/marketing), we have different cultures and historically, different values. Job #1 for me has been to bridge the divide between our offices/functions and rally around a common set of values (that define our behaviour/attitudes) and objectives (that define our priorities). Thanks for the feedback and best wishes in your next venture.
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