Where to begin... Bosses have zero idea of how to run a business in this century, despite being a "tech" company. If the constant pointless meetings, high pressure/stress environment, or ego driven decision making don't crush your spirit, the purposefully misguided and lack of direction will. This place will eat your soul.
Picture this: You're in a meeting, you have two people telling you completely different ways of doing something, and you're expected to do both and neither at the same time. This was not discussed by those giving the direction beforehand, and they will never talk to each other about it. You have to be the one to figure out just what to do about this, and which direction to go. Did you choose correctly? Impossible. It was a trick scenario. Because you failed, you will now be berated in front of everyone for your failure. Which is definitely not a failure from management to actually give you any sort of direction. No, it's your failure because you failed to figure out what you were supposed to do with constantly changing directive, in the off chance you get some.
I was hired with a clear indication of what my role would be. The FIRST day, I got called into one of the partners offices, and was told that everything I thought I was going to do, was completely changed. I was grilled to "test my knowledge", and though I had a lot of right answers, I didn't know the answers to questions that no one would know on their first day at a new company. This was a test, that I not-so-surprisingly failed. After this, I worked for 3 months without any idea of what my role was, or what I should be working on. I created my own work, took on different responsibilities, all because no one would give them to me. Finally, after those 3 months, I got clear directive for my role, so I was excited to actually work on something concrete. Except it wasn't, because nothing I worked on was ever really implemented. All they cared about was what you presented in meetings, and didn't care at all about the actual execution or follow-through.
In total, I worked there for 6 months before I quit. Can't say I'm really proud of any of my work there, and I didn't learn anything. Overall, if it wasn't for the people or the compensation (which was actually decent), it would be a big dark spot in my career.
You want to stick out and shine at this company? Over over over-promise. No one cares about if you actually follow-through with the things you present. Make a bunch of promises that you know you can't keep, because it doesn't matter. They will love you for it.
