Pros
You get to work in cannabis and help bring solutions to an industry that is very underserved. Customers are generally awesome and the people you work with, especially middle management leaders, are some of the smartest people you'll ever come across. During the glory days, LeafLink's HR Team did an incredible job with hiring. Unlimited PTO and fully remote is a great perk. Leadership doesn't care where you get your work done as long as it gets done.
Cons
There is a lack of strategy and vision at LeafLink. They've never really nailed down one pain point or solution and mastered it. Marketplace, Payments, and Logistics are all half-baked solutions and our customers can attest to it. And leadership keeps scratching their heads wondering why we aren't profitable by now. The company has no idea what their business objective is and who they're solving problems for. Leadership wants to try and solve for every pain point of the wholesale cannabis industry but what makes a really good company succeed is being the best at one thing, and then scaling up one solution at a time. These guys (and I say guys, because there are no women on C-Suite) insist on solving and building everything at the same time. With limited resources and bandwidth, it's no wonder everyone is so burned out and frustrated by the horrible decisions they're making. Not to mention, the decisions that have been made by upper management have resulted in a lot of dollars lost, and yet, those same men have gotten promoted, time and time again, with no implications or accountability for the poor business decisions. For an industry that has capitalized on the cruelties placed on brown and black communities, you would think they would at least have the decency to put forth a proper social equity program. But no, the CEO only sees dollar signs and has no empathy for the industry itself. Feels no responsibility whatsoever. Similar to WeWork, he is looking for a lucrative exit that will leave a bulk of the employees with absolutely nothing. The few women who do sit on the leadership team will just say yes to everything the CEO asks of them. It's his way or no way. He has no experience scaling a tech SaaS company, and will likely run this company to the ground. Look elsewhere until the leadership team has changed at the very least!
