CEO doubles as VP of Sales and does neither well - Anonymous employee FPX Employee Review

1.0
Mar 23, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Mankato resources are excellent. Have a handful of medium sized legacy Firepond customers which provide revenue. This helps to offset the lack of new business in the last 5 years, and keeps company from folding.

Cons

CEO Dave Batt is toxic and unethical, and is not above lying about product capabilities and resources to close the deal. Although they close very few deals. Company is not financially stable. Went bankrupt or close to bankruptcy in 2009 and has never fully recovered. Resources stretched very thin. Little direction and scarce leads provided to Sales team. CEO tries to micromanage every part of the company and all deals. Sales atmosphere is one of frustration and anxiety.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Feb 24, 2017
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Pros

Great tools, smart people, free snacks.

Cons

Lacks vision, as many had mentioned. Brought in leadership from outside companies, companies which are also failing. I don't think this company ever fully recovered from the previous owners. A lot of things were lost including employees and the knowledge they had. New hires can check the employee bios to see how recent people are. Lots of people here do whatever they want instead of following guidelines which make their work all the more difficult for someone else to take over or manage. Former employees did the same and now people have to run around for days just to manage it. A lot of heat coming from the top which trickles down on all levels. Favoritism was also very apparent. If you weren't the favorite it was practically verbal abuse, and no amount of sound proofing in the meeting rooms could hide how displeased everyone was. Management has huge egos which do not allow them to ever be wrong, often turned into a he said/she said thing. Took less than a few months for me to realize that I need to get away from this place. As people say I'm not quitting my job, I'm quitting my manager.

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