- CEO lacks maturity; the most fearful CEO I’ve ever worked for. Hates that it’s a remote organization and constantly is looking to “make an example” of someone to inspire fear in other remote employees.
- CEO only respects his [white, male] buddies’ opinions; I personally witnessed multiple instances of women — women who actually worked there — whose strategic guidance was being dismissed in favor of the perspectives of outside buddies of the CEO, who clearly lacked the proper vantage points to make those calls.
- The attitude is that people are utterly disposable. They are remote; they aren’t real people. They are NPCs. The Linux Foundation knows it has a prestigious name, and uses this to create the sense that everyone is lucky to even be allowed to work there — damaging the professional self-esteem of multiple highly-qualified professionals I worked with, and making it difficult to effect positive change or build useful things (nobody does their best work when they feel low and afraid)
- Lack of advancement — can’t promote what you don’t see, of course
- Strikingly inconsistent expectations depending on the team — some work 14 hour days, others cancel meetings so they can attend yoga.
- Zero leadership accountability. It’s always “someone else’s problem.” Burned through at least 2 COOs. Burned through an enormous amount of money building the same product multiple times. All because of fear, insecurity, etc. I cannot stress enough: no matter how good you think you are, or where you’ve worked, don’t work for this CEO. It’s a waste of your intelligence, passion, and time.
