6 ms·
I worked for Docker under Steve. Steve is a nice guy, but a horrible CEO for any current tech company. When I left Docker I told HR how disappointed I was in hi
by windexh8er 7y ago
I worked for Docker under Steve. Steve is a nice guy, but a horrible CEO for any current tech company. When I left Docker I told HR how disappointed I was in his response as a CEO with regard to recent layoffs. He went on and on about how this was about saving money to get to profitability in 2019 and he blamed himself, as he should have for missing. But then he didn't actually take any responsibility for his actions. He didn't take a pay cut, he had just hired his buddy Neil Charney for marketing and that guy should exit stage left right behind Steve. There's lots of leadership at Docker that's bad and Docker is very misdirected internally. For an entire quarter they kept telling us Microsoft was the path forward. Except most native Windows shops aren't doing a ton of containers. And if they are they're moving to Azure because of the credits. Then Microsoft kind of sort of vanished from the push. And it was kind of sort of IoT - but Docker Enterprise doesn't run on ARM and they were so far behind. Docker has bad leadership and nobody is steering the ship towards a destination, unfortunately.
One last tidbit about Steve. Steve made his fortune off Concur being sold to Amex. So Docker, obviously, had to use Concur internally. We were told not to complain about Concur in Slack ever so as Steve would never see it. Well Steve, Concur is a flaming pile of garbage compared to modern alternatives. And that was where Steve was leading Docker. There are a lot of really good people left at Docker. Get rid of Steve, get rid of Steve's buddies, get rid of the sales leadership and circle back up with the product the team they have can build. I think Steve's departure implies he knew he'd never hit his goal of profitability this year. Bon voyage Steve! Hopefully it's not too late for Docker.
- mathattack 7y agoI don’t know about Docker but I concur about Concur. It’s 1990s technology that’s only a quarter step above mainframe green screens. I will say that Docker’s 2.9 on Glassdoor is very low for a tech company.
- windexh8er 7y agoI will say that rating is likely very close to how I'd rate the company overall during my short tenure there.
- GordonS 7y agoWe have to use Concur at the megacorp where I work - it truely is awful. It's slow, clunky, and often just gets in your way. For example, if I attach a receipt, the "receipt is attached" toggle remains off - you still have to manually change it! The "cost allocation" stuff is also an unnecessary waste of time, and things often seem to be off by a penny, which causes Concur to complain and prevents submission. I could go on.. For such a large scale system, I just can't fathom the UX or performance.
- twa927 7y agoFor some reason many "enterprise" software products are clunky and buggy. I guess this is because the decision to use the software is made by managers who don't ever use it.
- opsunit 7y agoI think it is more to do with the fact that "enterprise" software vendors have done the boring legwork of ticking all of the necessary multi-jurisdiction legal tick-boxes, implement that one insane export format, provide reports required just-so by a given regulator and so-on. The value they provide to the business is outside of the software in that sense.
- twa927 7y agoIt's good that the managers care for the higher-level "business" goals, but shouldn't they care for their subordinates more? In the end it also contributes to a business metric - employee happiness. When I was switching a corporate job to a startup job the fact that I switched from a corporate Outlook and a proprietary issue software to GMail and Github made me happier.
- opsunit 7y agoI suppose my point is ultimately that they're not goals, they're requirements, and they are often imposed from the outside by legal or other official bodies. In that context caring doesn't really come into it. In terms of the vendors of shitty enterprise software (and attempting to answer your original question), if you've spent a bunch of time, money and effort making the Venn diagram of certifications and industry accreditations and implementing niche proprietary licensed file formats converge into your product you may not have either the willing, cash, or capability to produce quality software with flavour-of-the-month UX too.
- ChuckNorris89 7y agoLow marks on Glassdoor are pretty much the norm in European tech companies, especially in countries like Germany.
- ahartmetz 7y agoMaybe they are actually crap. Many seem to be running a sweatshop model - long hours, low pay (yes really - that's a big difference to Silicon Valley) and stupid perks.
- Kirth 7y agoSeconded. I've seen quite some Belgian and German (tech) companies that don't value good (tech) employees. They'd rather pay slightly below market rate and cheap out on everything. Somehow these companies keep going. People's standards here, are low. Belgian news has an item every half-year where some big shot company boy complains about how difficult it is to get (good) ITers. This gets thinned down to "there's not enough ITers". Reality is that they refuse to pay for the quality employees they NEED, so those work elsewhere/leave the company/work remote.
- krageon 7y ago> "there's not enough ITers" This is the complaint every company I've worked for or met with so far has fielded at me, which is kind of hilarious as they all also unequivocally refuse to pay a reasonable wage.
- _Codemonkeyism 7y agoSame experience at another megacorp, hated it. The cynic in me has the feeling they use this to turn people off from getting reimbursed - the worse the UX and tech the fewer megacorp has to pay for expenses.
- xparco 7y agoQuit your whining and you are so entitled it's cringe
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- hammock 7y agoWhat are the good alternatives to Concur? I don't mind it (as far as enterprise software goes) Also, did you think about telling Steve Singh these comments, or just HR?
- fxfan 7y agoIt's an incredibly shitty thing to malign someone when they have no opportunity to respond. You only bring up issues a small number of decisions which do not make or break a company, which leads me to wonder maybe if your animus was personal. Being a CEO means a lot of things- a single software use means nothing. Do you have absolutely any data about the number of MS shops using docker? Microsoft is actually pushing docker in windows big time, and they won't spend so much effort if it weren't asked by their clients. Did you ever ask Steve what his reasoning was behind the push? Or you just didn't like Microsoft so figured it was a bad decision by itself? Shame on you in any case for badmouthing him
- whatthesmack 7y agoSmall correction: Concur was sold off to SAP, not Amex. Although we all expected it to be sold off to Amex for a long time :)
- eeZah7Ux 7y ago> Steve is a nice guy > he didn't actually take any responsibility for his actions. He didn't take a pay cut
- windexh8er 7y agoI was implying that he was nice personally, as in some CEOs won't give you the time of day. You'd expect someones actions to align with their personality in a case like that.