Monks reviews

• Timelines can be tight, which sometimes affects depth of discovery • Team bandwidth is often stretched across multiple priorities • Some internal tools and workflows could be better streamlined • Cross-timezone communication requires extra coordination • Limited visibility into some upper management decisions

On the flip side, acquisition by S4 is eroding many of the reasons I joined in the first place: • Empowered, bottoms-up culture being replaced by top-down command-and-control. • Radical Condor replaced with secretive, need-to-know information hoarding. • Sales funnel has dried up. • Getting on a new project is like The Hunger Games where the last one standing gets the job and everyone else is RIF'ed via the strict bench policy. • Career growth is limited with little to no room for advancement in title, pay, etc. • Executive management is largely absent. They'll show up to sign a new client contract, but otherwise you're more likely to see them posting pics from Cannes on LinkedIn or chatting with Elon about their CyberTruck on X than on internal communication channels. • Upper (non-exec) management is in over their heads, struggling to run a business with the scale and scope of the post-acquisition company. • Front-line management is stretched thin, having to perform double duty as senior individual contributors as well as people managers; resulting in being less effective at each.