1. The culture is really bad. There is no teamwork as people are incentivized to look out for themselves and their monthly bonus (yeap performance is reviewed on a monthly basis like in a factory)
2. Functions don't talk to each other. Everyone's pretty territorial and trying to defend their space, so Ops does not interact much with other functions like marketing (which is crazy). HR is its own world and unresponsive. Finance and logistics are also in their own world and always trying to cover their mistakes as if they were a third party provider and not part of the same company.
3. People realize that in order to grow, they need to execute and kiss-up. At the top, managers surround themselves with yes-men as loyalty is valued highly. Push-back is quickly shutdown as decisions are made up the ladder.
4. Hard to tell if its the acting COO in charge of the company, the CEO or the Chairman. People see the CEO mostly as a figurehead.
5. People are not the priority of management. HR prioritizes recruiting rather than the dealing with basic admin personnel issues. Even when they recruit they give incomplete information to candidates and pressure them to decide quickly without regards of their personal circumstances.
6. It seems that people are just staying for the equity and waiting to vest as they've given up on very basic values that make companies successful.
