Pros
Really great co-workers. Everyone is very smart and some of the best people I know work (or worked) here
Cons
- C-suite seems completely out of touch with the staff. Does very little to keep staff informed of what is going on at the company and this feels intentional. Hard pivots seem to happen all the time and there is no effort made to keep wider teams informed of these changes. - Departments and teams have become incredibly siloed - The strongest voices and opinions are let go in ever-increasing rounds of layoffs at the behest of the almighty board. All that is left seem to be people who agree and just do exactly what leadership wants without any pushback. - layoffs are handled by basically keeping things as quiet as possible and letting as few people as possible know what is going on - the result is that the people who are left behind have to do the work of the many people who have been let go. As a result, everyone is running at 100% capacity all the time and no one has any time to help out another team or complete a task properly. - fun things like regularly scheduled cross-team meetings where you get to know people from other teams get cut in favor of yet another meeting where you have to give a tightly controlled presentation to a middle-manager or senior leader so they can share a few of those numbers to their boss. And then, if that senior leader can't make that meeting (which is scheduled regularly and planned well in advance) that meeting get cancelled and all the work that everyone did to prepare gets scrapped. The message is clear: the only employees of value are those at the top. - gone are any meaningful townhalls where staff could actually ask questions to the CEO. Now a "townhall" is just another tightly controlled slide deck. If you are lucky you might get a cringe-worthy AI-generated ice-breaker.