* Salary is well below market average and leans on the mission to make it seem better than it is. The incredibly lean benefits package will not compensate for this. Once you arrive, you'll learn everyone is bartered down regardless of experience, so you will find experienced professionals on less than those with far less time in industry simply because they felt they had to accept less.
* I have watched incredibly driven and successful professionals become flattened by the leadership, leading to many feeling they had no choice but to leave.
* Many people end up wearing many hats with no clear lines of role responsibility, leading to burnout and important issues being forgotten.
* There is sadly a culture where many are talking amongst themselves about how unhappy they are, but clearly don't feel empowered or safe to bring these issues to SLT. In order to succeed you will be expected to keep business critical issues to yourself with no outlet to express frustrations. This leads to one of the most de-stabilizing professional environments I have experienced.
* Bottlenecks can be found everywhere stopping quick business decisions being able to be made. There is no agility within the team. Unless you are in the 'inner circle' your ideas will not be listened to (or, like me, you will find your work copied and pasted into someone else's presentation with no recognition)
* Every place I have worked has succeeded based on being candid, transparent and open with their employees. This creates a culture of unity and collective buy in towards a shared goal. Whatever the opposite of that is, can be found here.
* There is no business-wide standard towards career planning or goals with employees. Some employees might experience better communication, but this will wildly differ dependent on your department and manager. This is concerning, as companies should have consistent and aligned messaging towards all staff and not rely on managers to pick up the pieces. It ends up creating an 'every person for themselves' environment, rather than a 'pull everyone up the ladder with you' culture.
* No onboarding or thought towards how staff should be looked after as they join a new business. It's clear they have no one trained on what it takes to bring in employees correctly, or indeed how to deal with offboarding either. Things as simple as HR and HR training do not exist here, which has meant certain incidents at work have been incredibly difficult to navigate without knowing if repercussions would come my way if I spoke up (especially when I watched said repercussions happen to other individuals within the business)
* When you do decide to leave, you will experience the weirdest environment I have ever seen in my professional career. People moving on is a fact of life in any business, and particular members of the leadership team need to learn how to not take it personally.
