Love the people and the product, room for improvement with managenment - Engineer Geospan Employee Review

While it was good, it was good.

Due to deep levels of mismanagement by the leadership team (C-Suite and founders), the company is failing on multiple levels. Strategically, leadership is quite rigid in its failed belief that if you build it, they will come. Time, effort, and money are spent at trade shows with little to show except mounting debts and broken commitments. In practice, we have been a failing company for the past 8 months, and the reserve funds have been depleted to the extent that payroll is no longer being made. Entire teams have been lost, owed back pay for work already completed. Deductions and health insurance are no longer being paid. And leadership gives empty promises week after week, month after month, that the solution is just around the corner. The measure of a leader is revealed when the chips are down, in how they respond and how they treat those around them during difficult times. Geospan is an utter failure.

The operations staff are knowledgeable, compassionate, and highly organized. They consistently strive to improve procedures and best practices, even when limited by leadership-imposed roadblocks.

During my time at Geospan, there were recurring issues with payroll delays and inconsistent communication around compensation. I found the executive leadership, including the CEO, to be unresponsive to concerns from employees and resistant to feedback. Significant company resources were invested in trade shows and summits, which, in my opinion, did not lead to clear benefits for the broader team. These choices contributed to a workplace culture that felt unstable and financially mismanaged.