1. Lack of strong Leadership.
(Fear based environment, almost all decisions made top down, they don’t trust individual contributors so they micromanage constantly, middle management and individual contributors are both afraid to stand up to cofounder(s) most often).
2. Lack of Mentorship/Growth/Development.
(Don't expect to be coached and mentored here. Managers and leadership are doing their best to stay afloat, stay employed, and juggle too many things on their plate that they just don't have the time to invest in their employees' growth and development. Hopefully this has to do with the stage of the company and not a gap in the skillset of the managers/leadership that has been hired. Also, if you aren't doing something well enough, they will hire someone over you to take your job from you instead of coaching you or helping you grow in a role one size bigger. In my time at Lovevery I saw this happen to two people, including someone being asked to give their title back, so the new person could have their title).
3. Lack of stated values put into practice.
(The perception from employees and what has been shown is that Diversity and Inclusion is only a 'priority' because of the Black Lives Matter movement, not because it's genuinely important to leadership. A specific leader has made racist remarks on Slack to individual employees. Leadership has gotten upset when someone is pregnant and has to take time off, which is backwards when you're a company focused on families. It's said that an on open feedback environment is valued, but feedback is either given behind someone’s back or in a badgering way, needless to say this is not constructive in either scenario).
4. Lack of Stated Priorities.
(Expects teams to deliver on all things all the time and perception from employees is that you have to do it perfectly the first time. It's not acceptable to make mistakes and is not a 'learning' culture. Their employees are NOT a priority. When decisions change all of a sudden, they’ve told teams executing on their decision to ‘figure it out’ and to make their employees work through company and national holidays to get it done if they care about delivering for the business - a bit of a death march.)
5. Lack of Collaboration
(This one is simple - although some individuals make a strong effort to collaborate across teams, which is appreciated, quite a few critical individuals lack collaboration and want to tell other teams what to do for them, as a 'service' to their own department.)
