Pros
The incoming Conductor owners, especially the appointed General Manager of Conductor GmbH have decimated the culture which was already in a downslide due to financials before Searchmetrics was bought. Everyone is leaving in droves, those who haven't already been let go. So I guess the pro is that people are finally seeing that this is not a place to want to work, a place where talent is not valued.
The final straw for me, a long term employee, was when the GM questioned a dedicated long term employee's in office time and behaviour in front of the entire company on the Slack general channel, a discussion that clearly should be 1:1 private. This is management 101 but these manager's were clearly not traiined properly or just don't have any professional etiquette. US HR leadership and the CEO need to do something about it but they are so out of touch with an HR leader who runs the organization like an old stodgy over-engineered 50k person company and not a fast and nimble tech business that has under 500 employees.
Cons
Toxic leadership that does not value "work-life" balance and employee's don't have to work around the clock or show up to an office to do their best work. It's a circus and the company is swirling the drain under this new form of micromanagement.
