Very poor leadership - Anonymous employee Upwork Employee Review

2.0
Aug 8, 2025
Anonymous contractor
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Pros

- completely remote - quite good salary compared to many countries

Cons

- Extremely bad management. Since entering the market and since having new CEO, it feels like high management is too optimistic. And not connected to reality. As if they were paid to sell us something. And as staff I am not I want to understanding reality. It is just waste of time to always listen to dreams. - Leaders continually change past bad decisions but replacing them with similar ones. - The work in teams is quite unstable as the plans and strategies change. One month the team may work perfectly, another month people can be scattered to 3 different teams having to learn all again. To fix new teams. While breaking totally what was important in the original team. - I don’t feel at all the management takes important long-term issues seriously. One can warn about the issues. But in the end such warnings get ignored. What works gradually becomes broken. - There is not enough people for important technical work. But there is always enough people to generate plenty of useless meetings, messages and fun activities. The management seems to have unhealthy hiring priorities.

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