Pros
It used to be the people and the culture. And the industry.
Cons
Between layoffs cutting the company from 300 people to just over 100 in less than 10 months and a complete turnover in leadership, this place has become an absolute mess. Many good people have either left on their own or been let go. Not to say there aren’t good people left, but to continue another ex-employee’s pirate analogy, it is genuinely a sinking ship. One of the company’s values is “We Say It Straight” but at almost every chance leadership gets to do so, they either do the exact opposite or force middle management to deliver poorly thought-out bad news to the rest of the team. At the start of 2023, when leadership announced that the company had raised another $100m, they snuck in a bullet point and quickly glossed over the fact that there wouldn’t be any raises, even if people were being promoted as part of the upcoming review cycle. They walked that last part back, as some people who did receive promotions also received a pay increase. However, less than two weeks later, another round of layoffs happened. Any bit of empathy and collaborative culture has gone up in smoke. You must be a try-hard kiss-ass to keep your job and succeed under the current leadership.
