Mass exodus from marketing to come. The new CMO is very much hated by her own org, even by her cowardly army of VPs. In record time, she has transformed marketing into a highly toxic and unstable environment with zero trust or transparency. It’s got to The CTO has enchanted her with his vision of lies, and she has bought into it hook, line, and sinker. Since layoffs, teams are grossly understaffed and underfunded yet she continues adding VPs to her staff. Her communication style is to ignore anyone who is not a VP or higher, and any talk of her “leading with empathy” is solely lip service to her personal brand, not a practice or core value of hers. She won’t waste her time meeting employees unless they have brown skin or a title of VP, demonstrating real empathy and leadership. Easily one of the worst moves Meyercord has made this year. He has mu---red his own marketing organization. Anything to avoid holding the CTO accountable for not delivering on technology he’s promised for years. And HR is useless because their only initiative is DEI. Record low scores in an annual employee survey went unacknowledged. No changes were made - besides more layoffs - which certainly did nothing to improve the already abysmal morale and mental health of employees. So Ed, if you’re reading this, you have a situation on your hands - but they’re probably too full of money for you to care.
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As a long time employee I am saddened by the every man for himself culture today. Marketing is disconnected from reality. Sales is struggling with nothing to sell but vapor ware. There is no future under the current leadership as it fosters infighting and fiefdoms.
Everyone is overworked to the point of crumbling. There are a few of us left dedicated to Extreme but at some point it’s time to throw in the towel and saw enough.
The new CMO is pinning everything on god awful sales plays done by the head in the sands that we toss in the bin. Recipe for failure. Extremely is destined to be another technology footnote if we continue on this path.
Agree with previous posts that she was a complete mistake. All the new VPs are carried by the taken for granted underpaid peons. But then she’s a short timer couldn’t make it at Hitachi or Nutanix. Time to move on soon from extreme the year is up and take yr VPs with you. Hopefully there will be something to be salvaged from the ashes.
I beg the board to peel back the rhetoric and see there is no substance.
Fire the CMO!
Fire the CTO !!
This place is all about the boys club. Women are useless to them. Almost no women in sales leadership. This place is a lot suit waiting to happen
So true. CMO and her chief of staff are so hated by the entire marketing org. She has created a completely toxic environment where everyone is completely overworked and burnt out - every week its a pivot to the next big thing as she scrambles to deliver on her over promises. She has no idea what she is doing and just steals from the oracle playbook but networking is a different industry that she is completely clueless on but obviously sold Ed a bill of goods and convinced him to lay off hard workers to fund her crony VPs. Campaigns are a failure as she copies Nutanix. PLEASE BOD get rid of her before she (and the useless CTO) ki-ls the company!!!
COMPLETELY toxic environment. Ed and his posse and CMO and her vps have created climate of toxicity and have beat down all motivation. CTOs lack of vision and not innovation for years. Many are leaving en masse or else overworked to the point of exhaustion. Don’t walk run from this ruined carcass or you will go down with the sinking ship.
Shareholders and board take note!!
Marketing won't be alone. CEO selling 50K shares within days of c-suite patting themselves for accurately predicting bottom point indicates otherwise. C-suite praised wall-street's abilities for seeing that and not letting price drop to $10 mark. Guess its others turn now to show faith on street. Foresight, demand predictability and product positioning - aren't these basic qualifications to get paid multi-millions?
Sounds like the same in-fighting that has been with Extreme for the past 10 years. Acquisition after acquisition has shown nothing but power struggles for dominance within. Extreme Networks is a house of fiefdoms.