Marketing has recently lost some high level long tenured employees. Is this just people moving on, or is this a reorganization?
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Marketing is mismanaged and dysfunctional, not only because of the CMO who is in over his head, but because the CEO thinks marketing should own and solely be responsible for Sales pipeline. Pipeline goals are pulled out of MC’s backside as aspirational, not based on any sound logic or actual data, just what MC thinks it should be and then when the goals (which Sales are not aligned with btw) aren’t met, the department pays the price. Marketing has suffered greatly from the constant layoff cycles because they are an easy target. Don’t forget they laid off a pregnant woman while others sit in their workstation (when they come in and don’t get me started on that) and scroll on their phone all day. Some people are treated like they have a quota over their head and others just coast all year and no one knows that what they do. This inequality has created the most toxic unrewarding environment I have ever been a part of in my career. This on top of how they treated a certain senior employee who gave everything to the company for a decade…why wouldn’t everyone and people like MR jump ship?
Significant departures from Product & Engineering continue to happen on a regular basis. Appian is in a downward spiral that it will not recover from unless the CEO addresses employees' concerns (he won't).
Malcolm Ross is out after 20+ years at Appian. Something is seriously off in this company, seasoned talent is being shown the door one after another. Is this the beginning of the end?