- multiple rounds of layoff bc CEO decided to more than double the size of the org in 1 year, without having enough $ to do so :) - middle management: some were okay, but generally speaking mid level managers were not great - nepotism: this very well may have been only on my team bc I didn't observe it elsewhere, but there was a lot of hiring of ppl who knew the hiring managers. not strong hires either, many of them were not the most qualified - not the best talent. hiring bar should be higher and more quality focused, rather than quantity and speed focused - not enough team offsites - might also be team-specific, but we were siloed - should give employees more transparency and enable ppl to do their jobs better. lots of info that I didn't have access to and had to wait on leadership for. there is minimal trust bc some employees get by doing lower quality work and others get stuck picking up the slack. but it turns into only trusting senior ppl and distrusting anyone else, and then the talented junior ppl don't get opportunities to grow (observed across the company) - comp was pretty average, better than low paying companies but lower than high paying companies
