Great market opportunity, horrible management, toxic work environment
Pros
- good food on occasional free food - great market opportunity - fooled Google into investing - some good people that good lured to the company with many false promises - the company has become very good at letting people go
Cons
the culture of this organization is fundamentally broken by constant drumbeat of monthly layoffs. employees live in constant fear that they could be next and as a result there is no trust and it's impossible to collaborate. the policies of this organization are not conducive to being successful - from ridiculously draconian IT to CYA HR to burdensome mandatory training requirements, expect to be hamstrung and obstructed at every turn from trying to do your job. Oh and good luck trying to get travel approved, the president of the company has to personally approve that at least 2 weeks in advance. the owner/CEO is out of his depth - besides being an inauthentic leader, he goes through manic cycles of love-hate with his leadership team who cycle in and out of favor with him on a routine basis. As a result the entire organization suffers from organizational whiplash as the executive flavor of the month tries to push his agenda through the entire organization before he is let go or demoted in the next cycle. This paranoia reverberates from the executive ranks down to the rank and file of the organization.
