1. Landmark - It is a self development program, that has the potential to seriously damage your mind. I don't want to go much into what landmark is, but I will say this. Landmark has a clause in their registration form that says if you have a mental health problem do not go there unless you are certified by a professional. I pointed this out to management, but as anyone could've guessed, mental health is rarely taken seriously. They reduce mental health issues into 'moods and feelings', which is another nugget of wisdom from landmark. I did landmark twice and the second time, it really affected my mental health.
2. Diversity - There's a huge diversity problem at intimetec. Jeet (CEO) often quips about how everyone should be rowing in the same direction to reach the destination. While its a nice analogy, employees or managers are not simply doing as menial a task as rowing a boat. Every single person, in the upper management speaks one mind; there's no protest. They agree or they shut up and the consequence of this is that they roll out policies that are often harmful and impeding growth. A diverse management could've probably pointed these out.
3. Disregard for expertise - or as they call it in intimetec, 'Doing what's needed'. Excellent software engineers have been pushed towards management (despite their own personal interests) because they are good at managing people. Some of them are happy, others mediocre and just want a job, the rest are unhappy and eventually resign. No great inventions, discoveries, startups happened because people 'did what's needed'. They took chances and did what their passion was. Just like Jeet did.
4. The super human CEO - Jeet is not a man, he is superman. He needs just 4 hours of sleep and is never exhausted. Well that's good for him, but the rest of the human world faces something called burnout. Which is why many governments and organisations make people take mandatory vacations. As a workaholic myself I can attest to this so can most developers. Sleep and rest are important. While giving out sermons on working hard and all that, please remember that when Donald Trump asked people to drink bleach, some did.
5. Disregard for intelligence - Since intelligent people ask (smart) questions, it is a problem to most cults. Intimetec's answer to that, is to not ask questions and to read the book 'Surrender Yourself'. I thought I had a problem because I couldn't 'surrender myself' nor did I understand it's meaning. Don't surrender if you don't want to. Having trust and faith in people is important, and you have the right to choose. No one can make you wrong for that.
6. Disregard for mental health - Don't do surgery on people's minds. There are doctors with multiple degrees still making mistakes when it comes to dealing with peoples minds, and here you guys read a couple of books, do a landmark course and are ready to deal with the human mind? It is traumatic, damaging and irresponsible, not to mention the sheer disrespect to mental health professionals. 'Doing open heart surgery' is an expression that is used in intimetec (borrowed from Landmark) which often includes yelling and berating people.
7. Politics - I always thought there was no politics at intimetec. But there is. It is the politics that is practiced in any cult worth its salt. Ready made answers, crazy rhetoric and introduction of new and out of dictionary meaning for words like rackets, stories, integrity and authenticity. For eg. 'there's no right and wrong', 'do what's needed to be done', 'take a stand', 'don't talk about it if you can't do anything about it', 'they are stories you create, you don't know what the facts are'.
