-Board & execs are almost all bankers, so the culture thinks of the tech & product folks as IT
-Top-driven roadmap and deadlines
-Company is struggling with an enormous amount of tech debt & unstable infrastructure
-Talk of agile but really a waterfall process
-Disagreement can be seen as disloyalty
-Culture used to be more open to conversation and openness, now it's all about showing which team/dept can beat the others
-Some possibly shady things being done, including some practices that are no longer standard (lack of email unsubscribe options, how long user data is stored & who has access to it, which third parties can access user data)
-Blistering pace of hiring means unclear ownership, increasing bureaucracy, turf wars
-Ineffectual HR department that's not equipped to handle the volume of new hires and personnel problems that can come up