Abrupt nosedive under inept Chief Sales Officer - Sales Iteris Employee Review

-AVOID applying to this company -Recent acquisition by Almaviva sent company into a tailspin, Iteris has limited decision making power -Poor executive decision making caused over-purchase of new product from Japan, company struggles to sell the remaining inventory, this impacted layoffs - more below -No women in executive leadership, classic boys club at the top, all are geriatric and greedy men -Regarding the new CSO: -One of the worst leaders I have encountered in my 20+ year career -Exhibits poor leadership ability and complete lack of empathy for customers and Iteris staff -Orchestrated a layoff and fired twenty A-Team employees in February 2025 -Does not exhibit respect or integrity towards staff, only cares about money and squeezing customers for dollars -Does not understand how to structure a sales division for revenue generation nor customer support -Tricked employees into meetings regarding potential promotions and then fired them with help from HR -When conducting layoffs, he fired each person and then left the call immediately (within 2 minutes), demonstrated a total lack of respect and is generally devoid of integrity HR: -CHRO fundamentally does not understand employee experience, never once initiated mechanisms to collect employee feedback -When asked about potential additional equity for non-ESPP/RSU holding staff during an All Hands post-acquisition call he responded to the inquiring employee, "Is that a serious question?" and laughed in front of all attendees -Open Sesame courses are pathetic and insulting to staff who requested professional development -HR does nothing to support employee growth and remain totally siloed, no business partner team to support cross-functional leaders -I did not receive any outreach from HR once during my time with Iteris -They require all employees to drug test when HQ is in California, total nonsense General comments: -Layoffs are bound to continue as company slides after firing top producing employees -CEO promised employees that no staff changes would take place after multiple All Hands calls post-acquisition which was proven to be a direct lie to 400+ employees -Holistically divided and broken company with extreme departmental silos in place, missing processes, leaving employees continually frustrated -Tenured consulting staff are often unwilling to consider process changes and are known to be condescending in meetings -Limited tech stack with executive refusal to purchase technology employees need to get their jobs done -Strange cross-company culture where employees refuse to turn on their videos on virtual calls, everyone sits in silence, HR team does nothing to improve this culture -Do not apply to any position at this company!! Most current open roles are lower-paid backfill positions after CSO reposted roles at lower titles and compensation. Fun Fact: Did you know it's going to cost you 4x as much to rehire and retrain instead of simply keeping the talented staff you already had?