C3.ai

As many others have said, there are amazing individual contributors at this company. I worked with some of my favorite people here.

If you'd like to be really good at pre-mortems at your next job, you'll get a lot of experience here fighting fires and watching poorly-thought-out decisions go south. This is good experience for the future, no doubt about that.

• Lots of fire-fighting instead of planning.
• Lots of poorly-thought-out decisions that result in successful projects being derailed instead of supported and pet projects with no track record of success being handed talent that was pulled from other teams.
• Lots of very bright people with excellent degrees and little-to-no real-world experience of the industry they're working with. (I will say that C3 is trying to change that. I'm not convinced they're successful yet.)
• Choleric CEO whose whims have often derailed entire projects/departments because he isn't patient enough to wait for results or doesn't understand what the product does.
• Upper management who is scared of said CEO, so they do not communicate issues clearly upward.
• Exodus of experienced talent in the last year I was there.
• Worst company-wide culture I've ever experienced, a large part of which is directly traceable back to management/the CEO. (Note that individual teams may be exempt from this, but it's hard to maintain that under the outside pressure.)

Get some new faces at the top. While I'd love to be proven wrong, as long as the current management is in place (written Nov 22), I don't see material changes coming.