Pros
There’s a lot of potential in some of the departments of FieldPulse. They’ve done an excellent job of acquiring talented people. Their sales team puts up impressive numbers and their CS team has reduced churn significantly. Thanks to the excellent work of the VP of Sales, the Director of CS, the VP of Engineering, and the Senior Product Manager - the software itself and the relationships they have with their customers are solid.
Cons
The CEO treats the company as a giant frat house. He has walked into conference rooms and interrupted meetings to ask if you’ve slapped the bag of wine at 10 am on a Wednesday, lifts weights and encourages employees to workout instead of working, takes large groups of employees to Hooters for lunch, and constantly communicates unprofessionally (examples range from the sheer amount of inappropriate jokes he makes to telling some employees a coworker is being fired days to weeks before the company fires them). They have a pattern of underpaying employees well below the market rate with the promise of growth opportunities that don’t come. They don’t have a 401K plan or any kind of retirement investment available to employees and they rarely invest in training or education opportunities to further develop your career. Let’s talk about the lack of diversity at this company. If you go to the company website and look at the VPs, all of them are white men. The only women or POC you’ll see are at the director level. Up until a few months ago, even the departments were segregated. Men worked in sales and engineering and women in marketing and customer success. They now have a few outliers in CS and sales, but no diversity in engineering or marketing. The marketing team has an especially high turnover rate. In a little over a year, they have gone through 3 VPs of marketing (if you count the CEO serving as an interim for 3-4 months), and 5/6 last employees have either left for a different job without their position being backfilled or have been let go without a plan for their workload to be covered. In my personal opinion, if you’re serious about making a career move into the field of marketing - you should avoid this company. They make their marketing decisions based on what the CEO “feels” is going to work. Most of the decisions are rushed, and rarely based on data, research, or testing. If FieldPulse is to have any hope of being successful in the market, they need to have a CEO that takes the job seriously.