Pros
Management can be seen as the art of creating the appearance of strong performance — essentially, packaging mediocrity as if it were excellence.
Cons
The management is in disarray: they keep pretending that everyone in the company looks happy and productive, but in reality it’s all an act. Ever since Simon Black left, anonymous Q&A sessions have been shut down, and everyone knows the company is beyond saving. All of the C-level roles have been rotated, but the most alarming case is the new CTO, Bernie. He only hires his former colleagues from Klarna and Wayfair into senior leadership positions, which is blatantly corrupt. He never makes any real strategic decisions as a CTO should, instead delegating everything to a lower-level manager, Omar. His only visible contribution is insisting that all company systems be rewritten in Java/Spring Boot—an outdated approach that only reflects his own comfort zone. Most of the real talent has already left or been laid off, which is entirely understandable. The few people who remain are stuck in an environment of constant frustration and misery. At this point, the company is just putting on a façade to pacify investors, with no genuine intent to build a sustainable future.