• medical benefits are shoddy in terms of coverage, and while employers cannot do too much to alter the insurance industry this is the most restrictive medical insurance I have had in a long time. • leadership is poor. I could write a book but I’ll spare you and give a short list - lots of thoughts but zero pragmatics or enablement. It’s disjointed as an organization. No one seems to be orchestrating, like 100 different biz functions all doing their own thing. The literal definition of dysfunctional, and reactive. • positive psychology weaponized for corporate greed. I have seen folks put in situations to fail (no resources, guidance, infrastructure, etc), told that failure is okay and that we learn from it, only to have them be told failure isn’t an option and have their input dismissed as playing the victim. The player vs. victim ideology that they subscribe to is weaponized to crush dissent and criticism, preventing many things from being improved. • completely wasteful and useless onboarding. Your first month is drinking positive psych and company culture kool aid while being constantly told to spend literal *hours* searching a disorganized and out of date internal wiki for answers only to find they don’t even answer your question and then have to advocate for yourself when you still gotta ask someone for help. Zero training on the like 200 tools the company pours money into hoping it will make us efficient and wondering why they aren’t working when we don’t invest in their proper use and implementation. • not a tech company - as much as they don’t want it to be true, our tech stack is not what makes us successful, it’s our coaches and that relationship is shaky at best. But our web app is mediocre at best. • so many things have been made more complicated than needed. • the only reason I think the org is still functioning is that they’ve thrown headcount at their problems instead of being functionally competent. basic project management skills are lacking and if some does use them the culture throws their skills out the window to speed through a “mission critical”initiative just to forget about it.
