- Everything is super chaotic
- Culture of striving to satisfy customers in crisis mode
- Not enough engineers which leads to mismatched skillsets for projects
- Poor values / company culture
- Teams are siloed and collaboration and cross-communication is discouraged under the guise of “stealth mode.” but there has been no communicated desire for company to emerge from stealth mode
- Minimal training for employees (everything on a need-to-know basis)
- Male-dominated workplace, lack of respect for female employees
- Expectation that you will drop everything to satisfy last min requests late at night and over the weekends
- Heavy messaging on your personal phone
- Unrealistic expectations set by leadership that get passed down to individuals
- CEO uses town hall meetings to blame people/teams he thinks are underperforming
- Central path of approval through CEO makes it difficult to get things done
- Lots of office politics
- No perks