Time to refocus on the product
Time to refocus on the product
- Great benefits (2x Fridays off per month for the entire company, 4x months paternity leave, SANS training, etc.)
- Lots of smart coworkers
- Too many stakeholders to align across a complex organizational structure to get traction with major projects.
- Sunk-cost fallacy affecting decisions around product strategy and NIH syndrome.
- Too many meetings full of corporate cheerleading.
- Layoffs were poorly handled.
Focus less on telling us how great the culture is, and more on building the right tech. You can have a great culture without pretending we're a family.
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