Pros
Super smart coworkers. Some great managers in specific departments. If you get a good manager, you'll probably stay longer than you should.
Cons
The title says it all. The warmth and humanness that was so appealing about this place has disappeared. Teams are heads down working in their own little silos. They've taken the cue from leadership to withdraw from interaction and communication and are all just hanging on until they can get better jobs. The big signal shift was when they let go of the person who was actually in charge of "culture." She was the company's biggest cheerleader, always bringing us together and getting folks fired up, and losing that position was just the first of management's many bizarre decisions. Just saying, "Culture is important!" and "do more culture stuff!" isn't culture. Culture starts at the top. If it's not being prioritized by leadership, why should the team prioritize it? If leadership isn't leaving its values, why should the team? CEO no longer does weekly video chats that brought everyone together; small thing, but see above about culture and living your values. Communications actually sent from leadership are clearly from ChatGPT (one of the most popular training courses on Udemy for several weeks ahead of the biggest layoff was "ChatGPT for HR" which was, once again, indicative of so many of leadership's failures the last two years).
