Pros
* Some brilliant people work here.
* The product has real potential.
* You can learn a lot quickly because you are thrown into the deep end.
* Good place to build resilience, if nothing else.
Cons
* Leadership expects small teams to perform like fully staffed departments.
* Teams are under-resourced, then blamed for not delivering impossible expectations.
* Public criticism is normalised.
* Employees are talked down to in group settings.
* Feedback often comes too late, too vaguely, or only when leadership is already unhappy.
* Performance management can feel unfair, sudden, and disconnected from actual ownership.
* Expertise is hired, then ignored.
* Decisions are often made by people who do not understand the function they are overruling.
* “Ownership” often means being handed responsibility without authority.
* Raising concerns can make you look like the problem.
* There is very little psychological safety.
* Turnover is high because the culture burns people out.
* The company treats chaos as ambition.