- Overbearing narcissist incompotent founder ceo that enfeebles his cadre and tasks down to the lowest level of employee with informing anyone in between him and the entry level worker. This is exacerbated by the fact that he is indecisive on formative issues and overly decisive on task execution but literally may change his mind minute to minute (not hyperbole) hour to hour. It's documented in the management tools if you should be so masochistic.
- Staff turnover is about 60% a year and the people there for more than 2 years have been there for more than a decade are so broken and have such low self esteem that each and everyone one of them has literally said they don't think they can go anywhere else ...mostly because the company invests absolutely nothing in career or technical development of its staff.
- good luck getting a promotion or raise. I guess the CEO is paying folks out of his own pocket
- there is no board or recourse to influence the founder/ceo