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Glassdoor provides some insight: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Wolfram-Research-project-management-Reviews-EI_IE14501.0,16_KH17,35.htm https://www.glassdoor

by mkl 7y ago

Glassdoor provides some insight: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Wolfram-Research-project-management-Reviews-EI_IE14501.0,16_KH17,35.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Wolfram-Research-project-m...

stared 7y ago
From one of these: "An interferring CEO who thinks he knows everything and any project can completed by one engineer in 2 weeks, maybe 3 if it's really complicated [...] If you do have to work with Stephen Wolfram, may god help you. 30 years ago, he was a genius with ideas ahead of his time and he managed to productize them. Today, he is still a genius with ideas that would have been ahead of their time 20 years ago. He is failing to lead this company to the future, and his main method of leading is screaming like a toddler who is told they can't go to the beach during a hurricane. If you are in upper management or project management, you will have to meet with him multiple times per week. In these meetings he will ask for updates on features and products he invented a week ago and be angry they are not ready to be pushed to production yet. After he finishes loudly complaining about how slow and bad everyone is, then he'll go on to request entirely new things that he expects to get immediately. Priorities are never clear, and when you try to get him to guide you, he he has no idea what he actually wants other than "everything". His irrationality and personal attacks drive people to tears." Maybe I am overly harsh, but to me, it sounds like Steve Jobs minus being actually at the frontier of innovation.
- neuronic 7y ago
  Steve Jobs always sounded like his actions as CEO were based on reason, despite being harsh and interfering (let's leave the whole fruitarian-cancer thing out for a second). To me it made the impression that he could at least reason as to what exactly upset him and why it mattered. Wolfram just sounds like a very intelligent but childish and insensitive leader with bursts of anger because reality doesn't follow his way.
cryptica 7y ago
The ego which is almost essential for success in business makes it almost impossible to succeed in science.
- bhouston 7y ago
  He does not generally sound like an amazing CEO either.
  - Trasmatta 7y ago
    Reading Glassdoor reviews, he sounds like one of the worst CEOs ever. Why anyone would tolerate working for him is mind boggling.
- Rayhem 7y ago
  I don't know what's lead you to conclude this; science is absolutely filled with insecure egomaniacs.

by mkl 7y ago

stared 7y ago

From one of these: "An interferring CEO who thinks he knows everything and any project can completed by one engineer in 2 weeks, maybe 3 if it's really complicated [...] If you do have to work with Stephen Wolfram, may god help you. 30 years ago, he was a genius with ideas ahead of his time and he managed to productize them. Today, he is still a genius with ideas that would have been ahead of their time 20 years ago. He is failing to lead this company to the future, and his main method of leading is screaming like a toddler who is told they can't go to the beach during a hurricane. If you are in upper management or project management, you will have to meet with him multiple times per week. In these meetings he will ask for updates on features and products he invented a week ago and be angry they are not ready to be pushed to production yet. After he finishes loudly complaining about how slow and bad everyone is, then he'll go on to request entirely new things that he expects to get immediately. Priorities are never clear, and when you try to get him to guide you, he he has no idea what he actually wants other than "everything". His irrationality and personal attacks drive people to tears." Maybe I am overly harsh, but to me, it sounds like Steve Jobs minus being actually at the frontier of innovation.

neuronic 7y ago
Steve Jobs always sounded like his actions as CEO were based on reason, despite being harsh and interfering (let's leave the whole fruitarian-cancer thing out for a second). To me it made the impression that he could at least reason as to what exactly upset him and why it mattered. Wolfram just sounds like a very intelligent but childish and insensitive leader with bursts of anger because reality doesn't follow his way.

cryptica 7y ago

The ego which is almost essential for success in business makes it almost impossible to succeed in science.

bhouston 7y ago
He does not generally sound like an amazing CEO either.
- Trasmatta 7y ago
  Reading Glassdoor reviews, he sounds like one of the worst CEOs ever. Why anyone would tolerate working for him is mind boggling.
Rayhem 7y ago
I don't know what's lead you to conclude this; science is absolutely filled with insecure egomaniacs.