Poor culture with the new CXO and VPs
Poor culture with the new CXO and VPs
- Remote work.
- Smart and caring people to work with.
- Newly hired CXO team do not even know about company values, let alone following them.
- CXO and VP just hire their friends from previous companies without checking basic things for company fit.
- There is no clarity in the leadership team as to what is needed to succeed. The only thing they care about is creating a hustle culture to make everyone work extra hours.
- There are no perks and benefits at all. There are no company offsites, not even basic company goodies to employees, no holiday budget, nothing. All this while the CXO team and VP team frequently hold offsites and travel around the world.
- There is no respect for the async or remote culture which once defined this company and made everyone super productive. The new leadership team does not like reading documentation, which is a shame because this is a company with heavy documentation (we have a huge public handbook which apparently the CXO and VP team don't even bother reading).
- They expect people to work like the big tech companies, but the rewards are poor. Annual increments are very low, around 3-5%.
- Check the pulse on the ground and see how frustrated people are. You may make great plans, but if the ones who are implementing them are not motivated, then it won't be a success.
- People who don't have a clue as to what modern AI tools can do are defining our AI strategy. Bring in someone from tech and product who is at the core of building such products to lead this strategy, and not your acquaintances from previous companies.
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