Micromanagement - Anonymous employee OpenTable Employee Review

3.0
Feb 17, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good salary and location. Company I growing fast and stock is recovering back.

Cons

All the managers and directors have been there for almost 8-10 years and have not updated their technology skill set. They don't let their employees think on their own, but they influence how to get the task done and micromanage them, line-by-line code review. There is no recognition or encouragement for the hard work or for the innovation. The foody awards are only given to sales and marketing people and very rarely given to engineering team. The CTO is trying to build his own empire by firing current employees who disagrees with him and bringing his own people from his ex-company, so on one wants to propose any changes or disagrees with him.

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