Constructor group Reviews

1. Lack of consistency. Company's major product is an all-in-one platform for educational courses creation and implementation. Any other company product should've never been considered a separate one, it should have been positioned as a platform module alongside with other products. Platform itself didn't have any concrete shape until the end of 2023, neither had it a separate product manager. 2. Poor planning: company failed to launch platform-as-a-service with intended capabilities because different teams were working on their products without having the leading plan consisting of platform-wide capabilities. Which could be broken down into smaller product-specific features. 3. Lack of focus: absence of the general plan led to the situation where each product was developing according to the product roadmap created by product team and without considering other products' roadmaps. In this case, building the platform will take multiples of intended time. Other significant downside is that the composition rule is broken: separate products being developed independently couldn't grow into the single cohesive platform. Platform should've been the main product, it should've defined requirements and restrictions for all other products. 4. Lack of development resources: the company launched a new product every 6-7 months without investing in growing teams. This led to the fact that product managers were busy with several products at once, and development teams were getting smaller and smaller with each new product. As an outcome, each product's timeline grew two times at least once for a previous two years. 5. Lack of processes: product-related processes on the discovery side were not introduced at all - each product team was inventing their own. Delivery part was covered much better. 6. Focus on delivery: most of the product managers' efforts were put into grinding user stories and working on UI mockups with designers. Given that development and engineering workforce was not enough, it actually meant that Product managers didn't have time nor energy to work with market insights. 7. Focus on sales: while product team tried to deliver as much as possible, other part of the company tried to sell whatever was delivered. As products were not aligned even a bit and couldn't have been bundled, company struggled competing with single-purpose products which already were on the market. Cherry on the top is that management blaming all product problems - in sales, in UX, in failing to keep up with the development plan - on product managers.

- ZERO black people. - ZERO open inclusion policies. - ZERO work-life balance. - WARNING. No 9-5, your shift would be from 07:00am to 02:00am. - No onboarding week-month for anyone. - If you have a family or kids, get ready to neglect it. - Company's communication tool is, yes, ***Telegram*** - You WILL work over time and weekends. - You WON'T be compensated, even if contract says so. - Men speak over women, sometimes aggressively. - No proper management structure or policies. - People are hired and let go without any warning. Like cattle. - Jira is supervised by managers themselves, they are clearly not experts. - Stakeholders mark EVERYTHING as "Urgent", hence, you will neglect truly "Urgent" requests. - You will be contacted on Saturdays and Sundays. And you will need to reply. - You need to use your personal account and phone, they won't pay for it. - Basic version of Jira. They are short on plugins or appropriate tools. - People team won't do anything to protect employees from abusive managers. - Corporate board changes every single month. - No benefits, nothing for Christmas or any other time of the year. - Teamwork is not a thing except for 1 section containing 3 people.