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Talented developers. Kick-ass exec team who are passionate and sincere. Good food and a good dev culture.

There are some growing pains.

• Pains in growing culture: The culture is slipping, and there is the start of a few too many attempts at minimizing the pain with middle management bureaucracy.

• Too many product folks building too many things not necessarily aligned to the company goals: There is more than a few projects being built for the sake of engagement. The bigger picture is not apparent internally and, for sure, externally to the actual LI users.

• A few too many cooks in the kitchen: Sometimes there is too much architecting, talking, and emailing, and not enough action. Too many teams are building very similar tools only for themselves.

Middle management needs to align with upper management. Stay focused. The company is getting large and company culture—a strong, tight-knit group with many shared goals—is slipping. The amiable, strong, and vocal group of bottom-up movers and shakers have left and moved on. The new class are more selfish and divisive. They are shakers but not movers.