Following a leadership transition, the company’s direction and culture shifted significantly. The founders moved out of their prior roles, and a new executive team established a noticeably different tone and operating style. Long-tenured employees who had helped build the organization appeared to have less influence during this period of change.
My role was officially “eliminated,” despite the fact that I had already been performing and helping define responsibilities that were later incorporated into a newly structured role on the same team. I was told I was not qualified for the revised position, even though I had been executing many of those functions months prior. The explanation felt misaligned with the reality of the work I had been doing.
Over time, transparency decreased and decisions appeared increasingly top-down. Institutional knowledge seemed undervalued, and experienced employees were replaced rather than retained. The culture that once distinguished EnsoData did not evolve, it shifted in a way that felt avoidable and unnecessary.