Toxic hypocritical misandrating culture
Pros
Used to have lots of fun events and parties. Open bar on two floors. Heaps of snacks. Fun yummy coffee carts and food catering. Virtual work.
Cons
On the surface, everyone smiles and pats you on the back. In annual reviews they praise your "great work." Then you get to what matters, a corporate environment rife with politics, hypocrisy and two-faced behavior. Backstabbing and gossip flows freely. Management plays favorites shamelessly, turning a blind eye to the open secret that people routinely trash each other behind closed doors. The worming internal politics and lack of transparency is astounding. Critical decisions are driven more by a spoiled and miopic CFO who always has to get their way than by any coherent vision or strategy from the CEO who seems more interested in playing pretend and stroking their own ego than truly leading. Bad decisions are made constantly based on incomplete information. The true leader and visionary is the President. She's who should run the company. This culture leads to a lot of amazing talent being driven away or marginalized in favor of yes-women and brown-nosers. Good luck speaking truth to power or going against the grain in any way. That's the quickest way to being "consolidated" in an unpublished "layoff" that only affects you. Inexperienced, young, pretty favorites get promoted over hardworking, experienced veterans constantly. Unless you're content sipping the LTK Kool-Aid and joining their circle of mutual mediocrity, I'd steer clear. There are far healthier corporate cultures out there that actually practice the "family" values they preach. LTK is all rotten at its core despite the sugary-sweet external branding.
