Pros
Now that I've moved on, I feel freer to express my thoughts on the company. Any review worth its salt begins and ends with Tom Fleming. His commitment to innovating how banks operate in the capital markets is as absolute as it is honest. He’s extremely intelligent. His vision and intensity deserve considerable credit for building Dealogic into what it is today.
Cons
Dealogic’s cultural and structural deficits flow directly from Tom's authoritarian micromanaging leadership style and volatility. The irony here is really first-class, in that these flaws make Tom himself the bottleneck constricting innovation. He runs Dealogic like a $10m company rather than the $100m+ company it is. He wastes an inordinate amount of time on small-fry decisions that any self-respecting VP would delegate downstream. His authoritarianism has bred a species of manager who are out-and-out sycophants, with a remarkable aptitude for claiming credit and avoiding responsibility. They’re more concerned with avoiding upsetting him than thinking critically about the business. Everyone’s loath to have that hard conversation with him, which often makes him the last to know. An excessively punitive and political culture results. It's what prevents the articulation and execution of big-picture initiatives, and even basic business planning on existing ones. That's the difference between a $100m company and a billion-dollar one.