- Daily 9am meetings to make sure everyone's awake and busy for the day. You get the feeling the CFO and CEO do not trust their employees. Do not be fooled this is a real or valuable "scrum" - leadership obviously doesn't think people from completely separate teams need to hear each other's detailed day-to-days (people would literally include "reading and responding to emails" in their daily standup).
- Horrible hours: often worked through lunch, on weekends, and until 7pm. Yes, this was enforced as much as it could be without explicitly breaking contract. Meetings (irrelevant to me and several others) were booked after-hours. The President made comments shaming those that left the office at 5pm.
- Unreasonable deadlines: dropped huge, last-minute projects on employees within their first week.
- Managers (especially CFO) were micromanagers and would hold inefficient hours-long "work sessions" to oversee every little decision made. Even some colleagues tried to have too much of a say in others' jobs (check the company social media and blog -- it remains visually unappealing for a reason).
- Excessive workload: company pushes quantity over quality and will squeeze every drop of work/time/energy out of you. My work (and several others) was wayy beyond the scope of the job description - this was clear from week 1.
- Employee satisfaction is not a priority. Myself and several colleagues' ideas were consistently ignored, talked over, and unvalued.
- Leadership is not aligned on their goals and management styles, often sharing contradictory information and debating on team calls, leaving employees confused.
- Fast-paced, but not in a fun, innovative tech-startup way, more like wishy-washy and directionless
As a testament to the above... every single person that was hired around the same time as me left months after joining. No one could last more than a couple months. Everyone that stayed has simply never held a better position and sadly thinks this is the best they can get.
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