Favouritism and crazy politics
Favouritism and crazy politics
Good pay is what I thought, but until we go IPO, I doubt the stock is that valuable to me, as I left a public company to join Stripe.
Very high on manager favoritism. If you are not your manager's favorite, you are out, even though you add a lot of value. There are many people who don't add any value in the GTM org. Definitely needs layoffs on this team. Maybe evaluate these managers and their teams.
Middle managers run the show here.
Amazon-kind of crazy politics. Managers take credit for employees' work. Actually, most of them are from Amazon and just talk about the bad culture they bring along.
Advice to higher management: look into middle managers and their teams.
Calibrate what each employee under these favouritism managers adds in value.
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