- Culture became increasingly more rigid and corporate over the last several years.
- Strict financial targets and prioritization of AI adoption often created barriers for non-tech teams in need of resources/headcount
- Some diminished quality of employee benefits recently
- Senior Leadership felt pretty disconnected from what was happening on the ground and resistant to collaboration. Offering feedback felt risky, as it was not always received constructively. Big decisions were made either completely without or contradictory to the input from the people who had to carry them out, which often lead to confusion and rework.
- Accountability from leadership was a recurring issue. When projects went off track, the blame tended to fall on individual contributors or partner teams, even when the root cause was poor communication or unclear priorities/directives from above.
- Career development was inconsistent and advancement often felt unattainable. Employees were encouraged to take on more responsibility with the promise of eventual growth, but those opportunities didn’t often materialize.
- Workloads often felt unbalanced and the tools/processes in place felt outdated and hard to scale, which made day-to-day work more arduous than it needed to be.
