The CTO is totally and utterly incompetent. They have spent the past 3 years trying to build a simple loan platform and failed miserably time and time again.
They are incapable of saying "I don't know" so will make a random decision on the spot that has no chance of working and then changes their mind multiple times over the next 6 months.
Plucks deadlines out of thin air, says one thing to ExCo and the opposite to the rest of the team.
Thinks delivery is turning the website on, doesn't matter if it gets turned off two hours later, they delivered, well done, Haribo all round.
Blames everyone but themselves for the constant failure, forcing people to leave.
Throw in some everyday sexism like saying a male employee should be wearing a dress because they are helping control the slides on a presentation to the entire company. A smattering of light-hearted bullying of people's appearances at every all hands tech meeting rounds off this great micromanaging leader.
To make the CTO's incompetence worse the CEO and the remaining founder are complicit in everything the CTO has done. They are the only two people in the company that don't see the incompetence, everyone else thinks the CTO must have some dirt on them, there is no other logical explanation for it.
Unfortunately the people that could have influence don't speak out and are too busy trying to build their own empires, especially the CFO who got his promotion by helping in the demise of the previous CEO. Will stab you in the back as soon as look at you as long as it gives him more power.
Do you code? Do you enjoy writing thousands of lines of code for an oxymoronic, monolithic, microservice architecture that will ultimately be thrown away or rewritten in six months?
Do you think using four cloud platforms at once is a good idea?
Do you love being micromanaged and set deadlines that have no consequence if you miss them?
Do you want to spend 10% of your week coding new stuff, 20% in meetings and 70% fixing bugs?
If you don't work in tech do you enjoy getting frustrated by waiting for a team to deliver something, anything, so you can actually do your job? You will be blamed for tech not delivering.
If you answered yes to 2 or more of the questions then this is the place for you.
The only way to get a payrise is to show your face in the office at 7pm. The quality of your work or the value you bring to the company is meaningless. It doesn't matter how bad your work is, how much you mess up or how many times you fail to deliver, just show your face in the office at 7pm everyday, send out a few late night/weekend emails to make it look like you are working hard. Remember to always agree with the board and ExCo. Don't question anything.
The CFO told me personally I wouldn't get anywhere without working late.
