There are some exceptions to the below cons. There are a few great people to work with that are nothing but helpful and a joy to be around, the rest are the following:
- In Product and Tech there are a solid number of people that are extremely unfriendly and worthless to anyone but their inner circle. They will do nothing to help you or your team even if you’re facing a priority one issue. It’s all about them and their needs. Figure it out and get lost is pretty much their attitude. They are their own clique and you won’t be part of it. And somehow, they are always shining stars to the higher ups. Yet, if you talk to the business, the people they are working with and for, almost nothing is positive is said about them. It’s really very confusing. I never had coworkers that aren’t working together and looking out for each other until working at Sothebys. It’s an unbelievably bad environment.
- Management outside of Product and Tech is something from the TV show Succession. The nepotism is unmatched. The owner of the company has taken the business and filled it with some of the most inexperienced undeserving “talent” I have ever had the displeasure of working under. They continue to double down on it and the result is round after round of layoffs because they can’t seem to make a good decision and turn a profit. Sometimes you only find out there were layoffs because you go to email someone and get the auto reply that they are no longer there. They will also do a round of layoffs and have a town hall the next day and not even address it. That’s if they even have a town hall. I think in 2024 we went 3 quarters without one. They probably didnt have much to talk about because you could just find the negative business outcomes in the tabloids. Nothing like repeatedly hearing how bad your company is doing via WSJ. This company is crumbling from the inside out.
