Terrible culture and the ship has sailed on equity
Terrible culture and the ship has sailed on equity
- 40% discount on jerseys and merchandise
- Unlimited PTO if you have a manager that has any planning skills or foresight (there are none)
Toxic culture in engineering from the very top. The entire tech org is a good old boys club of Indian men.
Has not hit a bonus target in several years. 50% in 2022, 35% in 2023, and the bonus is based on contrived metrics that you have no control over. Somehow we hit 0 on a metric. HOW? Execs present exceptional growth numbers at every all-hands, though.
Company valuation has been flat since the last fund-raise.
Executives spend massive amounts courting celebrities and athletes and then delay any cost-of-living adjustments.
Forcing return to office despite no evidence that it improves productivity. In fact, since they started at two days, then three, productivity is noticeably down.
Horrific time zone conflicts as teams are split between India and USA. You will have 11 PM meetings regularly.
Egotistical managers that have not written a line of code in years and think they know it all from reading the getting started page on an Apache product.
Absolutely no bandwidth for tech debt until something blows up in a VP's face, which happens often. There are constantly SEV incidents open, and no one seems to be able to quantify impact, so everything is an emergency.
Absolutely no team comradery. No one wants to bond because no one knows where loyalty lies.
Layoffs every year at the beginning of the year coupled with an increase in the scope of the roadmap. No project ever completes on target. Some miss targets by YEARS.
New CEO of commerce is snake-tongued and robotic. No humanity. I seriously doubt he has empathy whatsoever.
Burn it all down. Everything you have changed in the past two years has been for the worse. Stop laying off the people that do the work and target the VP levels that do nothing.
The product quality is atrocious.
There are social media accounts dedicated just to posting messed up merchandise.
The clear goal is monopolization through exclusive rights deals, but the public isn't buying it.
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