Meta

• Good pay
• Free food
• Smart colleagues and manager
• Interesting work

TL;DR: You work ridiculous hours for a project that can get stopped at any point. You stop caring as much, but still need to put in many hours to not get a bad rating at PSC. Even if you do all that, you could still be done by the next layoff.

• Terrible WLB (at least 40+ hours per week). You never turn off because you need to deliver impact. It is even worse with AI.
• Leadership has no idea what they're doing. There are frequent reorgs. Projects are cancelled once they're near completion. This disincentivises ownership and incentivises rest and vest...
• ...which would be fine, but there is PSC. It is a terrible, terrible process. People stop working for a week just to write their PSC. Managers work weekends and go off-grid for two weeks for PSC.
• And lastly, there are continuous layoffs.

Stop rewarding frequent reorgs and shifts in priorities. We are moving fast, but in place or even in the wrong direction. I've been here for 6 months, and I've been through 3 layoffs, 2 reorgs, and 1 flattening.