Smartsheet

People in IC roles are usually nice

Some of the direct managers are nice, but it's a roll of the dice depending on the team you're on

Interesting and challenging work to upgrade legacy tech stack

• Senior leadership does not care about employees.
• There is a fake commitment to DEI from senior leadership.
• The company is hiring in and promoting only white men with nuclear families to the highest levels, or if you are not a white man, you must be willing to uphold that power structure to get promoted.
• The pay is mediocre.
• Senior Product and Engineering is full of bullies.
• Nothing brought up to HR is ever attended to, as seen from personal experience and issues shared from friends.
• Management gets nearly zero training, especially on creating an inclusive workplace.
• There is an expectation to deliver projects to dates the team had zero say in, that the product team just says to get it done without knowing any of the technical requirements and before project scoping.
• The company will not publish diversity numbers.
• Racist and sexist comments occur in meetings and Slack threads constantly.

The whole C-suite and board should quit, and replace themselves with a more diverse set of people who would actually care about employees in addition to profit.

Since I know that won't happen, here are some things you might do (but probably won't):

• Put DEI in the OKRs, and publish that within the company
• Put your diversity stats and any current DEI initiatives on our publicly facing website
• Hire from nontraditional backgrounds & set goals for % of candidates in interviews that are from new, more diverse hiring pools
• Require multiple rounds of bias training for interviewers
• Step in on Slack and Zoom (and in the office when that's a thing again) when your teammates say racist and sexist things instead of just waiting for them to go away
• Hire a new DEI director and actually give them a team and budget instead of just hiring a single person & then not supporting their initiatives
• Really sit with and consider the toxic workplace you have created, and feel bad about it
• Use that bad feeling to think of things on your own and do your own research on how to improve yourself and your influence, rather than relying on others to tell you and then getting super defensive when anything you need to change is brought up