- Hugely irresponsible with cycling between mass layoffs out of FUD market predictions and hiring waves of new staff
- Large payment inequality between developers and very slow to provide raises; the first cost of living increase in years fell well below what it should have been at only 3%
- Inept payroll department made regular mistakes and often didn't catch it on their own
- Regular team and management restructuring with no long-term vision
- Irresponsible financially, claiming a lack of revenue needed to provide more raises while still being financially wasteful on regular on-sites and retreats, poor use of employee time with frequent and lengthy "feel good" meetings, company-branded gifts, and a focus on regularly replacing employee laptops unnecessarily with the latest devices for the sake of hype
- No software accountability and large amounts of complacency, including shipping poorly tested code via an incredibly slow and problematic release pipeline
- False narrative on their core belief of "strong opinions held weakly", as it only works if you are already in agreement with their approach
- Job titles and seniority are given moreso by favoritism and optics rather than skills
- Despite the company professing a culture of positivity, many team managers rarely seemed to provide praise for their team members and were often inconsistent in their communication and expectations
- Tech is horribly implemented, inconsistent, tested, and documented
- While regular discussions of tech-debt are acknowledged it bears little to no priority despite any problems it may incur
- Large amount of mid-to-senior devs have spent most of their careers at Greenhouse and cannot see the forest for the trees in just how poorly designed it is, often acting like Greenhouse is the first company to encounter the technical challenges they do, continuing to approach solutions using the same poor decisions that got them where they are now and act as though industry-standard solutions are too risky
