There is way too much work to do and not enough people to do it. The work is poorly planned and often urgently needed. People are working weekends and late nights to get everything accomplished. This is leading to severe burnout and high turnover.
Leadership is struggling, seemingly unable to set a realistic vision while recognizing the serious foundational issues in the product. They forget their previous commitments and tradeoffs just months later, causing teams to panic and scramble to pick up the pieces.
Benefits have gotten worse. We had amazing health insurance, but we've moved over to a new benefits platform to use our own Sidecar Health insurance as an option. The new options have much higher deductibles. If you're on the Sidecar Health plan, you also feel like a test subject. Also, this transition has issues that are still not resolved.
No 401k, but they are overfunding HSAs (if you choose the Sidear Health plan) to get around that.
Bonuses are tied to company objectives, which haven't been met in the last few years.