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• Breakfast and lunch offered.
• Events are a big deal.

• Lack of diversity and inclusion in leadership.
• High turnover in senior management leading to reshuffling of priorities and constant restructuring. This affects career progression and generally team morale. (The previous guy is always the wrong hire and made wrong decisions.)
• Adamant with RTO policy enforced to have people in office despite CKO working well during Covid with WFH.
• The Boys Club at the top gets to make the decisions and is clear of accountability. The culture of scapegoating is under the surface, hidden under the big words of operating principles, but very much there.
• Generally more reactive than proactive when it comes to technical issues.
• It's one of those places where if you're good at what you do, you get rewarded with more work and no recognition.
• Performance review system is flawed with obvious preferences to certain teams, close to the The Boys Club.
• Many, many teams and very often it looks like some of those teams exist only for the sake of it with no actual value.
• Office politics is out of control; it's the only way to survive in this company. If you do not play this game or you're not a "yes-man", this is not the place to even consider.

The CEO should be asking hard questions to his immediate reports and crosschecking them by actually going to the people at the bottom of the ladder. Those versions will not tally.