Great Colleagues, Toxic Executive Culture
Pros
The people I worked with day-to-day were collaborative and easy to work with. Fully remote position with somewhat competitive base pay. Direct managers were hands-off in a good way — trusted you to get the work done.
Cons
Culture and leadership significantly deteriorated following the acquisition, resulting in a vastly different employee experience than the one that originally attracted talent to the organization. Executive leadership lacks strategic vision and fails to foster an inclusive, psychologically safe workplace. The legal and compliance function suffers from poor cross-functional alignment and is consistently excluded from key business decisions, resulting in reactive rather than proactive risk management. Compensation reviews are infrequent with limited transparency around pay equity and merit increases. Benefits packages are below market standard. Leadership at the senior level demonstrates poor people management skills and emotional intelligence, contributing to a high-stress, low-trust culture. Organizational direction is unclear, leaving teams without the executive sponsorship needed to drive meaningful impact. A DEI program was in place but was discontinued, signaling a lack of genuine organizational commitment to inclusion beyond surface-level efforts.
