Pros
Good people Products are usually (eventually) pretty decent at the frontend "Fun Fridays" while a bit cringey, were appreciated and did help a bit CEO does seem willing to (sometimes) take chances on new hires
Cons
CEO with a mindset that his 130+ employee company is still a small, lean startup - it isn't No or limited HR processes to speak of Products rushed to market without testing Oh god the micromanagement - team leaders don't even get budgets Absolute, total lack of vision and short-term thinking Too many products - stick to School Jotter, it's actually not bad Office space is tiny - yes it's Leeds City Centre but there's only one meeting room. Under-resourcing of all departments Constant pleas from CEO to work for free - articulated as "stretching beyond" and "going the extra mile" - all it means is "work for free". Paranoid - stories of employees being fired for adding recruiters on LinkedIn, employees having HR called over updated CVs on LinkedIn, workplace bullying (almost entirely by the CEO, who's just that - a bully). This website is blocked because the negative (ie, real) reviews were causing too much dissent. It's the only blocked website! Literally, you can browse anything but Glassdoor! Internal systems just don't work - CRM is a godawful mess that doesn't work and isn't even being fixed due to short-term planning. Customer contact information is a mess, communication is non-existent. Ludicrous targets based on some random pie-in-the-sky numbers