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Average company with lots of hype

Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
Former Employee
Worked at Zeta for less than 1 year
March 28, 2022
2.0
Doesn't RecommendApproves of CEO
Pros
  1. There are good products.
  2. There are paying customers.
  3. There is good funding.
Cons

The recent 4 and 5 star rating stating no cons are really suspicious.

As soon as there are a few negative reviews, people rush to give their glowing 5 star reviews.

The negative reviews tell the true story of what's happening inside the company.

Zeta is an average company with above-average hype.

The caliber of work is about normal and nothing that you would not find in other companies.

Management at Zeta is below average.

Top management especially lacks experience and think engineers and middle managers are the problem.

Their experiment with Nova failed badly due to inept top management and wrong strategy.

There's rampant nepotism where relatives of VPs get roles beyond their competence levels and experienced people get blamed for any delays and failures.

No wonder then that people leave for better environments.

People who have been in the company for more than 3-4 years get away for their mistakes with nothing more than a mild reproach from the CTO.

Many of them try to hide their mistakes and blame the new people for not understanding the functionalities.

How can they understand if the documentation is misleading and the old timers don't respond to questions?

Stay away from this company.

Advice to Management

Be more professional. You already know who the incompetent people are, and you should weed them out.

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