Peloton

• Beautiful new office (that you'll probably now have to go to at least Tue - Thur, even though there aren't enough seats or conference rooms)
• My teammates are really awesome
• Supportive, smart boss

• Work/life balance is no more. Working daily 10-12+ hours to meet ridiculous C-suite timelines, evening calls, and the expectation that we are always available on nights and weekends.

• It's an entirely new team of leaders (mostly from Netflix), and all their VP-level reports are trying to prove themselves, so they pass ridiculous projects with absurd timelines onto the worker bees. The same requests are being assigned to multiple teams, causing lots of wasted time doing redundant work (and no one has time to even do what's critical).

• Culture is really quickly becoming super political and competitive.

• There aren't any more interesting projects; it's all BAU and jumping for last-minute exec requests, leading to a lot of tech debt that is getting worse quickly.

• Big turnover on many technical teams.

Talk to each other.

It feels like you're handing out the same requests to multiple downstream leaders as a kind of fight club – who can deliver first.

We could be doing a lot more if we weren't wasting our time with work that doesn't matter or is redundant.

Remember, we are people, so non-stop work and expectations that we are sitting around waiting for you to need something are unrealistic.

Be more thoughtful about what you say and to whom to avoid the chaos you're causing.