- there was room for development but never room for comp raises
- incredibly sexist boys club energy
- not much psychological safety; I lived through two really big layoffs and annual medium layoffs
- leadership & strategy: in flux like…a lot! A little directionless? They make lots of big bets and take risks, pivot quickly, take new risks. I think that can be smart but I watched them make the same mistakes repeatedly. Like, that didn’t work the first time! Why are you doing it again!
- benefits are good except as soon as you add a dependent onto your health insurance it becomes super expensive
- no in person time ever: they did one entire company offsite when I was there which was largely just seminars and very little productivity or team building
- the culture is very corporate word salad at times. I felt often like leadership of all levels was trying to avoid just saying the truth or saying something simple and hid behind synonyms.
- I’m gonna say it again: SO sexist. And like, the kind of sexist where most of the men are probably progressives and would say that they are feminists, and they probably are! But in practice and in the workplace the women were disregarded, not elevated as leaders, did not get a seat at the table.
- AI use: used artificial intelligence to replace human narrators and artists. All of their work right now is largely AI-generated, and they’re eliminating actual human jobs to make poor quality AI content. They don’t even use AI efficiently. Claude Cowork?? No, TikTok AI video slop!!
