Oh boy, are there many.
- C-suite is pretty much exclusively male and very young. Their inexperience shows. Someone who's never been in the trenches—never had a real job—isn't set up well to run a company of this size, as they can't possibly understand why some semblance of process is necessary as the company has gotten larger. So the execs don't really empower teams to set up process. They'll *say* they do—but they actually discourage it through the way they themselves manage (top-down, prescriptive, spazzy). It trickles down to pretty much everyone.
- Some team leads who were early (and probably cheap) hires stuck around, and clearly don't know what they're doing. Those inexperienced "managers" enable a culture of micromanagement at the hands of misguided/uninformed execs, and everyone feels the pain.
- Projects that would move the business forward dead-end all the time. Every morning you come into work, you might be expected to drop everything and pursue a shiny new object one of the execs dreamed up overnight—that ultimately goes nowhere.
- The company has somehow managed to hired some very smart, experienced women. Unfortunately, the boys in the c-suite/at VP level won't let them do what they're good at, and will spend hours in meetings every week mansplaining and talking down to pretty much every woman in the room. This happens everywhere, of course, to some degree. But at Thrive, it's BAD. Sickeningly bad.
- Because of all of the above, there's a revolving door effect that's probably not gonna slow down anytime soon. Thrive is losing some great people and more are on their way out. The insistence that the rate of voluntary attrition is normal is woefully ignorant.
