# Some leaders are ignorant and arrogant.
- They don’t listen to your opinions because they think they are smarter than you.
- If you point out loopholes in their thinking, they will just change the topic.
- They make poor judgements, and you will handle the aftermath and still deliver results.
- If you don't deliver, the leader thinks it’s your problem that you are not competent enough.
- The leader thinks their judgements are always right, even when their track record tells a different story.
- When things go wrong, they attribute the fault is on other people or on external factors, taking no responsibilities.
- You can’t change their opinions. They don’t listen. (Just like they don’t listen to these Glassdoor reviews.)
# Leaders don’t care about your personal lives.
- They think working for long hours all the time is normal.
- If you worked overtime and over-delivered, the leadership will expect you to continue over-delivering.
- Many employees in the company have experienced burnouts. Don’t be one of them.
# They don’t care about your finances.
- No 401K matching.
- The year-end bonuses have been given in June or August in the next year. You can't budget around it.
- They don’t tell you their salary bands, so you can get lowballed.
- Don’t get deceived by the option value in your comp. The options are worth nothing unless the company IPOs or gets acquired.
# They don’t care about your career either.
- They tell you promotions only happen in the year-end cycle, but then people get promoted left and right throughout the year.
- People managers became people managers without knowing how to manage people. They get promoted only because they are good at their individual contributor work.
- Don’t trust their promises. Don’t. Ever.
