Extremely Poor Leadership, Lots of Lip Service, and No Career Growth (Unless You're Upper Management ;) ) - Product Designer Attentive Employee Review

1.0
29 Jun 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The individual people at the lower levels are so smart and some of the savviest people you'll meet. As you can tell by this glassdoor page and the oodles of fake positive reviews, HR is really good at their job....

Cons

Attentive looks very nice from the outside, but when you get inside the company, you look around and see that everything is on fire. Upper level management makes extremely questionable decisions. Recently a number of people at the top were promoted from SVP to C-level (aka Chief 'X' Offer), and from VP to SVP level without any clear understanding given to lower level employees as to why. This is in stark contrast to how few lower level employees are promoted. Even when those employees are going above and beyond for their jobs, they are not promoted for months, and told to just wait and see if the next review cycle will be when they get the chance. It's amazing how management acts in the most self-interested way, dealing themselves more salary and higher titles, without compensating their lower level employees too. What they have done to the product design team is absolutely unconscionable and simply the latest in a very long pattern of self-dealing, cynical and callous behavior. Middle management at the company is relatively good but is absolutely toothless because of how upper management feels the need to control everything. Literally the entire C-level suite of this company should go: they have no vision, misplace priorities, misrepresent what the jobs they are hiring for actually are, and expect low-level employees to word 12-hour days and weekends for pennies. All while they promote themselves and give themselves fancy new titles while they gut an essential team and stifle careers.

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Attentive Response
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Thanks for sharing your feedback — we are sorry to hear that you were disappointed with Attentive. We do encourage employees to share their feedback externally and do not have any input as to what they write -- and that results in both positive and negative feedback, all of which is appreciated and shared with the leadership team. We recently updated the frequency in which employees are promoted based on their work product and the business needs. In some cases, the business need for a promotion at any level will fall outside of the promotion cycle and at that time the decision to promote someone is evaluated by leadership and action is taken.

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