nowadays they seem to make it a hobby to make negative headlines at least once every quarter. I fear there will be no negative repercussions for the leadership.
Basically, the management set their own salaries, the entire work force gets a 40% yearly bonus, and they have no one from the outside to report to.
On top of all of this, the money flows regardless of what anyone is doing. (While there is a yearly loss of 10% of their users, the past deal with Verizon made them very rich, so they can go like this for years). Revenue has been only going up, despite a loss of absolute users. So this explains why they continue to do bad things even though outside observes can not understand - during the last 5 years losing users did not impact their financials in any meaningful way. While people were complaining and users leaving the product, revenue was increasing.
They do take care of their employees with lots of benefits and other stuff, so as an employee you don't want to risk all that with speaking up against your superior.
Over the years they have created a company culture where there are endless number of small teams doing irrelevant stuff, with absurd hierarchies, with some people doing no work at all. With 16 people in the upper management, there's also fragmentetion of decision making going on. It's all a bit headless.
Due to the complicated hierarchies in the company everyone is content with doing just enough to not make life harder for anyone else - suggest to change things fundamentally and actually work on delivering a great product and you will not get very far.
Basically, the management set their own salaries, the entire work force gets a 40% yearly bonus, and they have no one from the outside to report to.
On top of all of this, the money flows regardless of what anyone is doing. (While there is a yearly loss of 10% of their users, the past deal with Verizon made them very rich, so they can go like this for years). Revenue has been only going up, despite a loss of absolute users. So this explains why they continue to do bad things even though outside observes can not understand - during the last 5 years losing users did not impact their financials in any meaningful way. While people were complaining and users leaving the product, revenue was increasing.
They do take care of their employees with lots of benefits and other stuff, so as an employee you don't want to risk all that with speaking up against your superior.
Over the years they have created a company culture where there are endless number of small teams doing irrelevant stuff, with absurd hierarchies, with some people doing no work at all. With 16 people in the upper management, there's also fragmentetion of decision making going on. It's all a bit headless.
Due to the complicated hierarchies in the company everyone is content with doing just enough to not make life harder for anyone else - suggest to change things fundamentally and actually work on delivering a great product and you will not get very far.