Management doesn't know what they are doing - Anonymous employee Placester Employee Review

With Placester’s recent growth and two acquisitions, it became clear to me that our engineering and product teams were focused in too many directions (as you’ve said ). It’s clear that focus was the largest issue day to day. Growth is great but there are also downsides and focus is one of them. As a remedy, we focused the overall direction of the business. As part of that, we had a to make a few hard choices on the team so that we could ultimately continue to focus on engineering and product. And more importantly, aligning everyone with our company goals. Making these types of transitions isn’t easy, however significant progress has already been made. We are continuing to hire in engineering and product and our first priority is removing technical debt (re: “rube goldberg mess”). Many of the teams have made significant progress and will ship production replacements to high-debt services in the next month or so. Thanks so much for the feedback, we always appreciate it. -Matthew Barba, CEO