fantastic place to work - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Ofload

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The culture has changed a lot. What used to feel like a growing startup has now become overly political, with too much energy spent on control, positioning, and internal alliances. At times it feels like a corporate version of Game of Thrones. The Product team undermine anything they cannot directly control, while senior operations leadership appears to be playing its own political game around the founder/CEO. The CPO/COO dynamic can feel less like healthy executive alignment and more like a Survivor-style pact to maintain influence. The result is a workplace where people become cautious, guarded, and distracted from the actual work.

The tech team (was) genuinely amazing. There were talented, capable people in engineering and that was one of the best parts of working here. In its earlier phase, the company had the kind of startup energy that helped it grow quickly and build momentum.

As the company scaled, a lot of that strength started to get undermined by poor leadership and cultural changes. Trust in engineering declined at the end of 2025, and the environment became increasingly top-down and control-driven. It felt less like teams were being empowered to do their best work, and more like decision-making was shaped by internal politics, hierarchy, and territory-building. That shift eroded trust across the business and created unnecessary friction. There were also some basic workplace standards that should have been handled better, including people openly vaping in the office, which made the environment uncomfortable and unprofessional. More broadly, the company seemed to reach a point where the qualities that made it successful as a startup were replaced by processes, HR, and politics that became blockers rather than enablers of the next stage of growth.