Pros
Leaders are charismatic and good at pitching a vision. Talented and intelligent ICs
Cons
- Management across the board has a chronic inability to handle feedback. Feedback only ever goes in one direction--downwards. This applies to frontline managers all the way up to top leadership. This is despite parading a feedback culture. ICs who provide feedback have the feedback turned around and weaponized against them in performance reviews or elsewhere. The company is packed full of very talented ICs who are deprived of the support they need to succeed, and then blamed and take punishment when things don't go the way leadership wants them to. - Dishonesty and deceit is rampant in communication to employees. Never have I seen such a level of dishonest behavior from leadership, especially at such a small company. I can understand a need to be careful on what information to be transparent with, but the leadership very frequently, intentionally, and blatantly lies to everyone at the company about the state of the company. The sad part is that these lies are very shallow and most people see through them, but they serve their short-sighted purpose of keeping the illusion of the "everything is fine" dog. One example is telling everyone there will only be a few weeks of "targeted overtime, not crunch", knowing full well that it would last indefinitely for many. - Diversity problems explicitly ignored by leadership because it's not a "priority," despite the large human impact of them. The company made big promises around D&I to employees, and has failed to live up to them. And recently things have gotten much worse. There are many other problems I did not list here. I fear that many more good people at the company will be hurt by the reckless course management is taking the company.