Fender Musical Instruments reviews about "upper management"

No progression and luck of empathy from upper management

Lack of big picture transparency with employees, driven by unrealistic upper and senior management. Engineering is more reactive to competition than it is innovative.

Poor upper management and no recognition of the lower levels. Too many political yes-men, not enough actual passion.

Low pay. Upper management inconsistent.

They DO NOT care about their employees. People are underpaid and they write it off as having a “cool job.” There is no growth. They’ll most likely put someone younger or inexperienced over you and make your life miserable. They are consistently doing layoffs so your job is never safe. Upper management is awful and only cares about bringing home their bag of money and will screw you over while doing it. Their entire upper manager mgmt team is white males and everything they do is insanely white male centric. They hired a ton of diverse employees and then laid them all off from the marketing and AR teams. Women get no respect unless you’re a woman who hates other women at the company. Be prepared to have your work stollen by upper mgmt, a really low raise (or no raise at all), and then to be let go… again seems cool but this place is AWFUL. OH and their severance is really bad so don’t except to make a lot of money here… unless ofc your a white male in upper mgmt.

Each department has metrics that conflict with other department's metrics. Upper management doesn't seem to care about keeping talent.

Definitely pays below market rate. Upper management constantly brags about how products we directly work on are outperforming sales, yet salaries stay pretty stagnant. A lot of mid-senior level engineers continue to leave for higher paying roles. No bonuses, profit sharing, stocks, etc.

Upper level does not understand the value of product design. They see design as people who create logos, bandjam posters and beautiful mock-ups. The key leader of digital product doesn’t know how to play guitars nor basic knowledge of music theory. Make design decisions without design background, only based on personal taste and $$. No one can answer the question of who are our users? No official study about the users and personas. Poor user research and Usertesting process due to lack of knowledge and support from the upper management. Key leaders doesn’t know what is the difference between UX and UI design. Doesn’t know how to use technology. Micromanagement and toxic design review process. No one dare to express their honest opinions while the The person is in the room even false decisions are being made.

Inconsistent workload Refusal to match external rates to keep quality engineers Management team is inconsistent with design schedules leading to easily forseen "fires" in the process due to unmitigated risk in order to meet schedules and deadlines despite dynamic circumstances.