Absentee Founder, Bloated Management - werkgeversreview Senior Manager bij Embark

I have worked at embark for 4-6 years and this was the best place to work for most of my time. As we’ve grown, it is apparent that embark’s management is not up to the task of growing up and becoming a real company. The founder is effectively checked out and only chimes in when it comes to culture stuff, but still decides things as he’s the owner of the company (fully or at least significantly in terms of equity he holds). We have MULTIPLE layers of useless back office and management roles that don’t do anything other than share videos of them with their kids or travel from office to office for meetings that could have been emails. Our bloated back office is nothing compared to the sales people we have hired and fired in the past six months though. Both have cost us enough money that, despite good core business results, we are tightening the belt on budgets for next year. My client has been trying to hire me for the past three months and I’m close to accepting. The embark that we all loved to work at and felt would carry us smartly into the next decade seems to be dead.