Smartsheet

Remote work (although the CEO threatens to take this away if we don't "do well"... whatever that means -- not really tied to any indicator or metric)

• "Global strategy" is to exploit wealthy markets and lower waged workforces: - Lately has been only hiring in the US for sales (probably to exploit the wealthy US customer base) - Lately has been only hiring in India for engineering (probably to exploit their lower waged technical workforce)- Some teams now responsible for what 5+ teams were responsible for... no work life balance anymore.
• Layoffs have overburdened teams with work, slowing GTM velocity.
• C level doesn't care about what you're doing unless it's somehow tied to AI.
• Enterprise AI pivot is marketing hype gone wrong: "get rich quick with 1 simple trick". TBD if it's actually profitable outside of venture capital fundraising.

• Let's stop with the re-orgs every quarter and shifting priorities - It's detrimental to everyone, including the business.
• Having 1 engineer with the power of AI do the equivalent work of what was once 5 engineers' responsibilities is not going to work out in the long term.
• Offshoring your technical talent to India while hiring US sales reps is not an ethical "Global strategy" - figure out a better one.