Culture is terrible. The new CEO is entitled, tonedeaf, and only cares about making the company into a moneymaking machine for him and the rest of leadership. After he took over, he and his team got rid of a large portion of benefits companywide, including unlimited PTO and the professional development stipend, with no notice, in the middle of the year. In the same breath he gave a sanctimonious speech about how we all had to be "winners," that we had to work harder despite having worse benefits. A leader who tells you to work harder for reduced benefits in the same stroke doesn't know how to inspire his employees and doesn't care about their well-being or careers. He and the rest of leadership are fixated on an IPO that may never come, and they're making the company a terrible place to work in the name of making Velocity Global profitable at any cost. Besides that, internally things are so chaotic and unstable, inter-departmental communication is a nightmare and job security is never a certainty, unless you're a sycophant. My department heads assured us we wouldn't lose our jobs - then they, and us, were all laid off. Don't believe a word said by C-Suite. They showed all of us that they'll say whatever they think they have to say to get what they want.
