Fivetran

• Good mid-level management
• Have good perks

Micro-management is a keyword at Fivetran. Leadership wants to check everything that an engineer is doing. They are more worried about measurements instead of value addition.

There are multiple processes introduced which don't make any sense. No one is able to provide a valid justification, but still, everyone is forced to follow them.

Innovation is killed in the name of data-driven. Senior leadership has forgotten the full form of POC. Before POC, they want the implementation plan. My super boss and above actually asked for it.

Their idea of gathering data is to micromanage and not make decisions. Senior leadership is not worried about the problems and challenges at ground level; they just want to ensure that the data is looking good. They are OK if it's artificially generated.

Often times, senior leadership behaves like dictators and would ensure that decisions are forced on ICs and managers. They don't bother about informing them before publishing publicly.

Fivetran has become a place of micro-management. We have heard of giving freedom in work. Here, leadership even teaches people how to write a Slack message. They even want us to control how to talk, how to greet, how to think, and how not to think. I am not able to think about anything that they don't want to manage.

Leadership wants to measure the happiness of people using just a survey. Nothing has changed in the organization, but since the surveys are becoming too regular, on top of that, leadership forces people to fill them. Employees just fill them for the sake of not bugging them. Leadership considers that as a good thing and celebrates it.

You should allow people to innovate.

Give freedom to people unless they are not delivering.

Don't start generating artificial data for your metrics.