- If you have an ownership mindset, you will hate your life here
- Boring work with almost no distinguished job titles, you're pretty much all working on the same set of tickets that upper management decides is most important
- People in power don't care product is bad. Just because SEO went down, less people can get scammed from the product and hence financials go down. Good products will get traffic regardless of SEO. There are competitors out there that do not charge a dime with more accurate information. Result is a 20% team downsize and slashed benefits.
- Top down leadership with most of the true decision making power dependent on the CTO who has to sign off on literally everything, at least in terms of anything technical. 99% of the decision making power is based on family business as there are a lot of related relatives in the company from C suite perspective so they basically have immunity and are important stakeholders.
- Highly political environment despite feeling that it is fairly casual. Since CTO has to sign off on everything, everyone else is just concerned about keeping him happy rather than improving the product. Leadership is low-key looking for slaves without being too direct. Aka sheep who just follow orders.
- False sense of teamwork and closed minded leadership. Not forward-thinking. Stubborn.
- Dystopian environment and culture.