Semantic Web Reviews

Personal Growth: - 0 company growth, unable to secure funding despite increased interest in the area and being pioneers themselves - Low pay - High attrition rate - Difficulty attracting new people, especially seniors - No career path - No educational budget Product: - No current product vision other than fixing bugs - Huge technical debt (working with current tech unlikely, heavy reliance on old outdated tech) - Adopted Agile with all the meeting ceremonies of Scrum but without giving the product team the necessary authority to be agile - Still only 1 release/year after adopting “Agile” Management: - Lacking people skills - No trust in people, decisions need to be escalated to C Level - New projects are always led by someone from C Level, never delegated - Very bureaucratic setup for a small company - General divide between C Level and rest of company - 0 woman in the C level, past and present, few women in general

- unprofessional management. Founders still lead the company and don't know too much about people management - paranoid attitude: they don't trust people and want to control every employee - overly bureaucratic for a small company - technology is interesting, but will remain a niche product - no real growth possible - small company, so there is no opportunity to grow / advance in the company - relatively low salaries, and difficult to get a raise