Pros
Some people are great but now everyone is heads down, CYA, and fearful of layoffs.
Cons
Turnover is high. Many of the good people voluntarily left, and now those left to shoulder more work with less staff are being RIFed. RIFs are happening every month secretly. Although the executive team is shielded. Execs are the highest cost but yet they aren’t RIFing any of those bloated ranks. How is that a sound business practice? Cut costs but do it with the folks that earn the least? Doesn’t make any sense. The execs also are still spending money freely. They have their teams fly in from across the country for meetings that could be done via Zoom. Weak exec leadership, cost pressures, poor controls, untrustworthy. High cronyism, terrible politics. They won’t tell you who was affected by layoffs and you are told to just figure it out and then when you do figure out who is gone that month, you’ll have to figure out how to do the work without those people. CSM gone? Now you need to play that role as that account team is “transitioning”. Product owner gone? Now you have to fill in that role too. All while production isn’t stable and you are on the hook on behalf of the whole company to make an angry client happy, with the constant threat of being on the next month’s RIF list on your back.