Dubber Reviews

Where do you start - there are too many to mention, especially now! With the second investigation into the accounts in less than 18 months, this company has to be doomed - it has to be. In my time the senior leadership (founders) reveled in first class flights, 5 star hotels and thought nothing of spending £500 on a bottle of wine in the most exclusive restaurants. They were spending as though all their Christmases came at once! Even took out a long lease on a very expensive London property that lies vacant some 18 months later.. Customers were staggered by the 'generosity' of the Dubber entertainment budgets... The SLT treated the teams with utter contempt. There was never any autonomy, no one was able to make any decision, sales guys had to fight for contracted commission payments - all the while it appears that the CEO may have been responsible for a missing $26m of shareholder funds. All the power rested with the CEO and COO. They took responsibility in the 'good' times - both need to do the same now - TAKE responsibility for your actions. They made 40% of the global workforce redundant 3 weeks after announcing a 3 year multi $m F1 sponsorship deal. This sums up the narcissistic characters at the top of the business. Do not touch this company with a very long stick - you will get burned!

1. Completely ZERO autonomy, and empowerment. All decisions irrespective of what they are go back to the top of HQ in Australia and always end up with CEO and COO. Given the appalling performance of the business and the shocking rate they have burned through cash needlessly leading to the 40% global headcount reduction in March 2023, the executive team should take responsibility and be held accountable by the board and investors, which is yet to happen.. 2. There is absolutely no strategy and direction, with the executive leadership constantly changing their minds about decisions and operating off their opinions as opposed to using any insight to drive decision making. There is no roadmap to sustainably growing business revenues, an understanding of which client targets need to be secured to execute against any plan, and no company alignment across teams and regions, which has accelerated the cash burn rate and destroyed what little confidence there was in the business. Given the size of this organisation, it really shouldn't be this complicated. 3. Commissions are never paid properly and the CRO fabricates his own rules and docks commissions for those that actually achieve or overachieve against their very complicated plan. For the rest of the team commission plans that target ARR booked revenue, are wildly unachievable and ludicrous in seize, meaning majority of the sales team don't actually earn any commissions. The commission plans themselves have historically been drafted and managed from Australia and have been very poorly written, with a large degree of ambiguity, which is purposeful to allow the CRO to move goalposts all the time. Given the business has not been achieving any of its revenue goals for the past 12 months and burning through cash surely this should mean a review of your sales and CRO function? But not from this business, the executive team operate under their own rules, and so long as their hefty expenses bills continue to fund their lifestyle all is well, and the business continues to hurl towards insolvency. 4. Complete mismanagement of the business and its funds spending enormous amounts of cash with loss-making and irrational initiatives such as, sponsoring an F1 drivers helmet, when you do not yet have a profitable business for zero return. Simply a ploy to send execs to the races entertaining clients / themselves. 5. Employees brought on under false promises and sold lies in order to get them through the door, but the reality is soon uncovered upon arriving. Do your due diligence read the reviews on glass door, read the stock forums on Hot Copper, review the continued stock crash due mismanagement.