Docker reviews about "colleague"

Technical management is clueless about the product and users, company believes users are idiots (not all are even if many are), complete lack of coordination across product, horrible cross-time zone working, badly designed remote teams, mediocre colleagues who collect a paycheck, high level deals that explicitly destroy any equity you may have, endless repetition of the same organizational dysfunction

Docker prides itself on its internal transparency but lately the communication has been sub par. We recently lost several colleagues due to terminations and while I understand it's hard to communicate these decisions, these decision have left many of us unsettled. It's also renewal season so not sure if the growth in our revenue will continue to our expectations.

- There's been a wave of firings across teams (e.g., product, marketing, etc.) You can be celebrated by the company for your contributions one month, but suddenly fired for no reason the next. Leadership has been mum about it and has shown no remorse/empathy. To many people, it's been a complete shock and now the company feels unstable. We have no idea where this is going. BUT this may as well be business as usual for an early stage startup. If you're looking for stability, this is not it. - Renewals season is upon us, and it's uncertain if customers get enough value from their enterprise licenses.

No clear vision where the company wants to go. Targets, managers and people have been changing very frequently. 2 RIFs at least in Europe. No transparency and managers are not interested in their staff. Individual goals are unclear.

Dishonest and unprofessional management. During the transition to being owned by Mirantis, 3rd Quarter bonuses were stolen while exiting executives were given severance and preferred stock options. Everyone else was given 48hrs to sign an offer letter from Mirantis with terms that did not match what was agreed upon by Docker and the bonus that was earned in the 3rd quarter while working for Docker were forfeited for no reason. Straight up thievery!

The fast-paced nature of the tech industry brings frequent internal process changes. However, this is understandable as it aligns with staying ahead in a competitive space.

Collaboration is lacking across teams, which limits innovation and shared ownership. The sales org is bloated and poorly structured, with a lot of overlap and little strategic alignment. Deals often close with minimal effort, which leads to unreliable forecasting. The People team is ineffective and out of touch. There's a known situation involving inappropriate behavior from a male employee that has caused distress among female colleagues, and leadership has failed to act—this speaks volumes about their priorities. Customer Success lacks direction and strategy, making it difficult to support customers effectively. Despite having a great product, it’s incredibly challenging to get customers to enable basic controls like login enforcement or to measure product usage meaningfully.

Toxic Culture: People are afraid of saying what they really think, no space for criticism unless you have a lot of clout and even then it needs to be delivered with utmost care. Some people are absolutely fake. Anything you say can and will be used against you. They will push you out if you're not up with the program. A lot virtue signalling, pointing out the correct use of pronouns but then do not care about you as a human being in any practical way. Even HR is just worried about looking cool; no real empathy there. Promotes Burnout: Lot's of conversations about mental health but then when colleagues that are obviously working more than 40 hours a week turn up great results, this is obscured as people just working flexible hours. Developer's Kingdom: There's no real emancipation of professionals other than developers. Everything revolves around developers and is only moved forward with their contributions. Madhouse: Too much happening at same time, too much talking taking place at the same time. No time to actually go deep into the work at hand. Every day feels like you should know more, do more, be more than you are. At some point you should be enough and be doing enough, because work is an just an part of time , and we're not machines. No transparency: the whole marketing team was gone in one week without explanation. Undeniably valuable members of teams were trying to find out if their job was safe over the following days.

The company targets and metrics change very often. Seem like no coherent strategy is in place. While there is a culture of open collaboration and everyone and go and comment on your work, at the same time, there is no actual feedback on your work and performance.