- No work/life balance: You are worked 24/7. Expect to get pinged or texted at 2am, on your day off, at a doctor’s appointment, and even on vacation. Days aren’t just long, they are non-stop. This is not role specific, it was company-wide.
- “Fires”: There is always a “fire” going on for very insignificant issues. If an office is running low on paper towels, the sky is falling and you better put everything aside to fix the “problem”.
- Micromanagement: Your every action is questioned, and you need approval to do anything customer facing. Even your emails are heavily monitored. You don’t feel like you can make any judgement calls on your own, which is frustrating during time sensitive escalations.
- Lack of Resources: The company had super aggressive growth/revenue goals, and a lack of resources to back them up. Teams were drowning because processes had not been ironed out, and the technology hadn’t been built to sustain such hyper-growth.
-No Voice: You have no voice, and your opinions/concerns are not actually addressed. It’s all lip service. I was promised dozens of times that things would improve in areas I was concerned about, and not one thing changed.
-Inexperienced Management: Many higher ups in the company are promoted because they all know each other and not because they have the required experience to do the job.