-Honestly you will feel good for the first few months. I know I did. I felt motivated. Like I was doing something innovative and rewarding. Then reality will set in and the cracks will start to show. It’s a glorified support call center with a cool office and fancy titles.
-Burnout. There is a reason turnover rate is so high. I have seen great talent leave because after the first few months, there is no growth and it stops being challenging and rewarding. This is a dead end support job and it’s the new employees leaving good reviews about how fun it is. I honestly was one of them.
-Look at the pattern of reviews...they get an influx of honest bad ones from people who've had enough and suddenly there's some damage control good ones right after. Those of us leaving negative ones have no reason to lie.
-Extremely low pay compared to similar positions at other companies, with way more work expected of you.
-Inexperienced/young leadership that has no idea how to motivate or train. They think because they are not as harsh as the CEO was on them, they are doing you a favor. It's a shame because some are good people, but they are clearly a result of the CEO's type of leadership.
-They ask for feedback, feedback is given, they trash on it, then pat themselves on the back for being open to feedback.
-Monday Cult Meetings
-CEO is extremely arrogant and thinks he is an intellectual life coach, stringing together incoherent motivational quotes as real "lessons". Ends every speech with "make sense?" even though it does not, in fact, make sense.
-No sitting when you're on a call
-Say they don't micromanage, and then proceed to micromanage you to death with write ups and passive aggressive messages asking if something has been done yet (when you try to explain that you were working on a higher priority, they say no excuses. even though they told you to prioritize.)
-Higher level leadership is waiting for a large payout when the company gets sold. This is not a secret and it’s not a bad thing to want to get acquired, but I get the feeling that this explains why they don't care about the wellbeing of employees, they are just maintaining the ship until they sell out.
-CEO (and other leadership) cannot accept being wrong. Even if wrong, they will double down on why their reasoning is right.
-They say there is room for growth and give examples of people that started entry-level and worked their way up. The problem with that? It is for the favorites and it's already happened. That may have been realistic before but it's not possible anymore. There can only be so many COOs, leads, or specialty positions. Now, they will just shove you into a position that you cannot grow out of.
-Benefits not comparable to other tech companies (no remote work, no hybrid option even with rising gas prices, no PTO in the first year, etc)
