Vantaggi
✓ Monthly team bonding
✓ Hybrid work
✓ Annual company trip & dinners
✓ Colleagues are generally helpful (except some leaders)
✓ Team is supportive and collaborative
Svantaggi
1. Leadership operates on favoritism.
• Inner circle gets fast-tracked approvals, better treatment, faster advancement
• Outside the circle? Scrutinized heavily, stricter accountability, slower/blocked advancement
• Same work, different outcomes based on who you know
2. Complaints treated as facts without verification.
• External complaints are accepted immediately
• No one asks the person being complained about for their side
• Unverified complaints become part of your record
• Reputation damaged by hearsay
3. Performance reviews are gossip-based.
• Feedback is vague: “general feedback”
• Translation: no specific examples = based on what they heard, not what they observed
• High performers with bad internal PR get low ratings
• Mediocre performers with good relationships get high ratings
4. Salary increments are underwhelming.
• Raises don’t match market rates or performance
• Even high performers get minimal increases
• Cost of living goes up, salary doesn’t
5. Promotion is purely about relationships, not merit.
• Advancement depends entirely on who likes you
• Talented people get blocked if they’re not in the inner circle
• Less capable people get promoted because they have the right connections
• No transparent criteria for promotion
• ‼️ Beware of certain leaders (particularly those in senior positions) who weaponize favoritism—if you’re not their favorite, you’re a target
6. Threatening employees during exit.
• When people discuss why they’re leaving, they’re threatened: speak negatively and face consequences
• Result: no honest feedback, no real understanding of why people leave
• Company stays blind to actual problems