Indeed

Pay, RSUs, WLB, People, Culture

I joined during a hyper-growth phase, and unfortunately, all these phases have done is water down the culture and introduce bad practices.

What was once an agile, fast-moving company has turned into a behemoth without much direction.

The influx of additional people during 2018 and 2021 brought their bad practices from other organizations. Without strong leadership at Indeed, this has given these people free rein to run amok inside of Indeed, inflating their own titles and performing kingdom building.

Indeed's culture was too nice, and SLT wouldn't put their foot down and address the problem. Instead, they gave toxic people blank checks to go on hiring sprees, duplicating efforts and teams in the process.

Some parts of the company are extremely slow-moving. I'm talking 1+ month to add a button to a UI. It's laughable it takes that long, but I'm not joking.

Indeed had a competitive edge at one point; they squandered that lead, and now other startups are coming to eat their lunch.

I give Indeed 5-10 years before they go the way of Monster.com.

Put some guardrails on kingdom builders. These people will take advantage of the conflict avoidance techniques employed by SLT. You need to stop letting this happen. It will cause more layoffs in the future, and you will only have yourselves to blame, not "coasters."