Flexible Work, Poor Company Culture
Flexible Work, Poor Company Culture
Work-life balance was good. There was significant flexibility. I was not micromanaged (partly as a result of good managers; not all enjoyed this). Some great technical folk. It can be fun to work on great products. Some resources were excellent, and that could make work fun and productive.
Culture and morale became very poor with all the layoffs and poor management at many levels (above 1st).
Pay was uncompetitive.
It became a financial product company: products felt like an afterthought, which made product development not fun or successful.
Poor at attracting, developing, and retaining top-quality talent.
Not good at getting rid of low-performers (many layoffs, but they seemed to be only weakly correlated with performance on the job).
Even so, it became very "stack-rank" driven, putting co-workers at odds rather than encouraging collaboration for the best product/company result.
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