Comically bad leadership - Anonymous employee Medidata Solutions Employee Review

Every tool we use has gotten worse, employee benefits have gotten worse. Leadership isn't transparent. They consistently paint a rosy picture of how our financials look and how we are back on a path to growth and then turned around and just announced that all employees would get 0% increases this year. It's the first time in 15 years that people aren't being given raises. They claim that it's due to financial hardships despite implying otherwise in company town halls and they justify it by saying that executive leadership (childishly referred to as XCOM because they want to seem cool) also didn't get raises. Did executive leadership get their bonuses? what about stock options? They certainly aren't going to be transparent about that What other options were explored to see if we could at least afford to give 1-2% raises to people in a time where cost of living is rising rapidly? The executive team recently forced a return to office policy where all employees are mandated to be in 3 days per week or risk being terminated. What they forgot is that we were working at our most efficient and most effective when we went fully remote during covid. The executive team would have been wise to consider saving $ on real estate costs rather than forcing everyone back in and then they could have afforded to give everyone measly raises. They are oblivious to the lost productivity of being in an office. Commute length is the obvious reason, but the office water cooler chatter happens constantly and the topics are almost always about how poor leadership is and their repeat bad decisions. I spend most of my day talking about our horrible track record of recent changes (whether it's answering people's questions, listening to them vent, venting myself, etc) instead of doing actual work now. it's depressing If you are interviewing with this company right now, my advice is do not return their phone calls. If you work for this company right now, my advise is start looking for other jobs NOW before it's too late. They already did a significant layoff less than a year ago, and another one is almost guaranteed at the rate this place is going