GoDaddy

A lot of pros were at GoDaddy before Aman became CEO. He single-handedly ruined the culture of GoDaddy.

GoDaddy's culture was ruined as soon as Aman became the CEO. The stock stagnated for several years until he pleased the shareholders by cutting costs, which means laying off good engineers, and promoting managers, meaning people who tell a good story and do not necessarily have technical chops. He thinks he has innovated on "experimentation" and keeps bringing it up, whereas the ideas and the technical decisions were done before his time.

Aman and the upper management always say the right things to please people, such as showing sympathy during COVID times or wars, but he is really two-faced when it comes to actually taking care of the employees. He will lie to your face and say the opposite to shareholders, basically saying the right thing to please the audience.

Management has decided not to hire folks from Washington to justify not paying high wages, where himself, the head of HR, and about roughly 20 directors/VPs (if not more) are from Kirkland and Sunnyvale. If they were to let go of themselves, their compensation is equivalent to the salary of 100-plus engineers who can add value.

All the good employees have either been laid off or left, and the people there who are left are folks from Canada, Colombia, and India, and parts of the US where the cost of living is low, meaning cheap engineers, and highly paid executives living in mansions in Seattle/Sunnyvale.

As I said, I have lost faith in management and lost faith in Aman, who is only there to please the board. Employee morale has plummeted, and they are only here because the economy is bad. As soon as the tide turns, don't expect good people to stick around.

All this wouldn't matter to Aman and his cohorts since he has already done his job by doubling the value of the stock, whereas revenue and growth have stagnated. Aman would also jump ship, showing the value of the stock as his success. What a shame of a CEO!

What advice? All of you are afraid to speak up to Aman and just agree to everything he says. Aman has hired his own yes man. So enjoy your life while you're at it.