Qubit Employee Reviews about "manager"

Cons

Management: The management is focused purely on the UK and is incredibly out of touch with what the US needs to be successful. CEO along with most upper level management is barely present in the US. This lack of presence has widen the divide between the UK and the US. Middle level management has generally fallen into these roles purely from their length of employment. They have no idea how to manage a team, or create career progression plans amongst other things. However, I think this isn't purely their fault. There is a handful of incredible managers who are trying to go above and beyond for their employees but they are given no autonomy from upper management. Benefits: Compared to the US markets the teams are generally underpaid and a large portion of salary is bonus. Which is fine when the company is in the initial startup growth phase but as the company begins to mature, this compensation structure leads to nothing but friction between staff and Qubit. Secondly, most of the perks that were present when I started have since gone walkabout or greatly scaled back. Career Progression: None. Unsure how to elaborate on this, I think None sums up the situation nicely. Retention: By now this shouldn't surprise you, but the US (I can't speak for the UK) is in all sorts trying to hold onto their employees. Everyone has decided to pull up stumps. Personally, this is the biggest red flag. A SaaS company is founded on good services and a good team, without this, Qubit will only continue to flounder in the US.

Cons

Cons: * Company focus on Product and Strategic Consultancy, CSE role is the price to pay for clients to use the Product * Professional Services and Customer Success are like Danny DeVito (PS) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (CS) in Twins * For every 1 CSE promotion there are 5-10 Account Manager/Strategist promotions * The role is marketed as an opportunity for progression into the Product Engineering team, one person did this in 1.5 years * No Mentoring, budget for conferences, time allotted to work on product * Different teams/departments have little communication and no transparency into things like product roadmap * Spending cuts visible in kitchen, events * Process to get into product engineering includes excelling as CSE, passing a competency assessment, contributing majorly to product codebase (no available time or training during working hours) only to interview against external candidates * Not much exposure to modern tech stack (no external libraries/server side Node) within role