Pros
- The original senior leadership team was amazing, thoughtful, innovative, intelligent, and hard-working - Helping people lose weight who have struggled with it in the past was a great bonus - Pay was top-notch for my role - Flexible schedule - Original senior leaders would listen to the experts in their fields and execute on their recommendations - Really amazing and hardworking colleagues - Meetings were entertaining and informative (pre-layoffs)
Cons
- Multiple layoffs within a few months had everyone on edge and fighting for their job (some people were laid off just weeks after being hired) - Teams got pillaged during layoffs, leaving middle managers with no subordinates to perform the necessary work, and then they frown upon those managers because their numbers slip despite their hard work to keep the number as high as possible - New senior leadership is utterly clueless. They have no idea who does what on their teams, which roles are critical for growth, and which are expendable - Treating workers as if they are stealing time from the company - Transitioning into the same space that led their direct competitors nearly into bankruptcy, despite repeated advice from experts not to go down this path and weather the storm as a traditional B2C company - New leadership ignores recommendations from experts on their teams, then steals their ideas months later, claiming them as their own and terminating the one who originally recommended the updates - Severely flawed financially and attempting to raise money through VC funding yet again, despite being leveraged to the hilt already - New leadership lacks any vision and refuses to step away from current processes to explore other areas to help the business grow