Bewertungen für GoPro

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Depending on the location and the projects, it can be really depressing, frustrating and boring. For example, I don't recommend going in the Alps office, as the executives here are not at all competent. This has been shared with higher ups, but unfortunately they do not do a lot of thing to change that. That's my main deception in this company.

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San Mateo isn't inn SF and isn't in Silicon Valley. It's kind of outside of everything. Salaries are not competitive.

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Everything that the company has launched since my short time there has failed in one way or another:
 - GoPro Plus - who wants to pay for premium storage when Google offers it for free?
- Karma - dead when launched. Relaunched by tainted by poor reputation and barely made a dent against DJI worldwide
- Fusion - teaser didn't drum up much enthusiasm. if launched on time at a decent price point can be a solid product (but only if)

All of projects literally got their funding slashed ever since I got there. I have experienced 3 different bosses in my less than 1 year tenure. Talk about a wild ride!

Too much of a bro culture. The MSFT presence died when Tony Bate was canned along with his lieutenants. The only ones left are mostly ex EA and ex Apple employees. Some are genuinely good, but most are clearly just collecting a paycheck until they get their shot at a pink slip and possibly a nice severance. HR has been constantly handing them out in a relentless pursue to cut costs since December of last year.

Unless something drastic happens they will end up being sold.

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-Bad leadership and no proper future plan
-Do no get tempted by the hiring calls unless you want to join a sinking ship and start looking again
-Irresponsible HR who are clueless about their jobs
-Too much of a bro culture and its full of people who come on referrals, creating mini groups of people who have worked together.
-Lack of diversity

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From top to bottom there are operational inefficiencies. This seems to be improving more recently, but many of the big hits the company has taken can be accredited to the CEO and executive staff. Aside from that, my biggest con about GoPro is the lack of growth opportunities. Teams have been "trimmed down" so people have more responsibility, but the teams aren't growing, so you can't really move to the next level of your career (unless you're entry level).

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- a lot of good people came in about 2 years ago, post IPO. Many of them had great intentions but left out of frustration quickly after starting. those who are left are struggling to understand what is happening or who to follow.
- managers, directors, VPs have never done the job they are asked to manage. Some got their position without any domain experience and are there because others in the roles left and they are in the "bro" club at the company.
- Values and culture are a farce. So much politics. people throw each other under the bus to self promote themselves. No one really wants to help others, only themselves. Everything is a compromise to appease other teams
- no one really works on thursday or friday so not much gets done at the back half of the week
- meetings galore. Everything needs to be a meeting and everyone needs to be at the meeting.
- Everything is a "process". For such a small company, it runs worse than bigger companies like Microsoft or Amazon. Even people from Amazon who joined, left because there was too much process. And the process is not there to help. it is there to control and micro manage
- overall energy at the San Mateo and San Diego offices are horrible. entire floors are empty because people are "working from home" all the time.
- Massive brain drain.
- Acquisition integration is horrible. almost all those who joined through acquisition have left.

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This company is LOST. Almost all talent has left the once fun company... all that is left is talk and egos. Incompetent and ineffective remain, especially in PDM/PM org. Can no longer compete in any market segment. Only thing saving the company financially is the mass exodus of key employees. Dead company walking.

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Too much focus on hierarchy leads to long drawn-out design phases.

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IT should not have to report to Finance.

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Tried to too many things all at once instead of having a clear focus