Applied Intuition

Most colleagues are hardworking, humble, and helpful people. They make the extremely bad work-life balance, low pay, and brainwash-style company culture slightly better.

Incompetent and inconsistent middle management. They recently hired some experienced managers who are great, but there are certain managers with extremely high attrition.

I’ve observed whole teams of engineers leaving in under a year due to bad management, and they’ve done nothing to improve.

To avoid having to work with bad managers, please make sure you ask:

• “Are there any engineers that have worked on your team for more than 1 year? I would like to talk to them.”
• Check their LinkedIn. If they’ve never been a manager before and their team has high attrition, they are most likely a bad manager.

This company has grown to include all the bad things from corporate culture and exclude all the good things about working at a startup. Engineers are getting worked like slaves, with way below average pay and slim equity. Middle management has serious issues, and the company is not addressing them, further losing engineer trust.