Folks, many of you are obsessively focused only on engineering and sales functions because we are predominantly a software company. You would rarely know what’s going on in finance, accounting and HR teams. We have hired some senior folks in accounting teams without minimum years of relevant experience and who have managed to fake their ways through our weak interview process by exaggerating their prior experience. We are now trying to hire a Manager in the Revenue team and we have listed many critical skill sets, which if a person actually possesses will really hesitate to join our company especially reporting to a person who does not have any of those skill sets. What would be the incentive for that person to report to a person from whom they cannot learn? It will be interesting to see who the Manager will report to. Is the company now trying to rectify its mistakes in the accounting team by hiring the right talent? There is no room for so many people at this function unless we think we have excess money to splurge. Anyhow, one good thing we see coming out of this is at least now we may have someone with real experience our company can benefit from if the recruiting process is done properly unlike the interviews that were hurriedly carried out in the past. HR and finance folks, please don’t make another mistake. Check thoroughly if the person has real experience in revenue aspects of US GAAP from companies with meaningful size and scale or good public accounting firms.
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My point is either adjust with what you have and continue to work at metricstream or get out from company. Company is not yours to worry about what and why your company is recruiting.
Bro, How is this my personal issue? Also, I am not crying. I am only highlighting the fact that if you write such a detailed JD and experience requirements for a Manager level role in US GAAP revenue dept and expect a world from that person then why did you not come up with the same level of detailed requirements and set the right expectations for hiring a senior manager/director level role? To our knowledge it was not done and why so is the question? It's not just a financial issue it's a competence and experience issue.
Stop crying here. It's your personal issue not company problem. Your job is either work here or leave the organization. It's not your company to think about organizational financial issues. Problem with metricstream employees is people don't leave if they are not satisfied with something and keep cry for something doesn't work as they expected.