There are many. - The CEO is largely absent aside from quarterly all-staff presentations. The senior leadership team responsible for planning, driving results, and creating a company culture is inept at best. This is the result of many promotions based on tenure with the company rather than expertise in a role or desire to do the role. Most of the senior leadership team has very little experience in outside organizations or in their role. The culture on paper and the reality experienced by people who work here is very different. - Hires are often made on a person's athletic background and authenticity to the endurance sport industry and not on their expertise or background in the role they will be filling. - If you love being micro-managed, this is a great place to work. The culture of trust has eroded since new senior management president has been brought in and has been replaced with a culture of fear and management by surprise. If you want to be treated as an expert in your career look somewhere else. - There is a severe lack of diversity at the leadership level. Senior leadership roles are all filled by male, former athletes, who all come from extremely similar socio-economic backgrounds. They will tell you they are actively working on DEI, but no tangible steps have been taken in 3 years. This is a good old boys club. - Leadership team members have a severe lack of emotional intelligence, and huge egos. The leadership philosophy if you can call it that feels taken out of a book from the 1950s on how to manage factory workers. You'll be told you have the trust to do your job, but you will not experience that. Instead, you'll get constant micromanagement through a chain of command gas lighting you every step of the way. - They will ask for your feedback and participation in employee satisfaction surveys, but nothing of substance is ever truly addressed. This is especially true with matters of compensation and leadership style. - The direction and focus of the company changes constantly and is driven by the whim and gut feeling of the leadership team and social media influencers, not requests of the customer. - Turnover is insane at the employee level and almost nonexistent at the leadership level. You'd think the amount of great people leaving would be a hint. - Very little opportunity for career advancement.
