Pros
- Spacious Parking
- Unlimited Coffee
- Unlimited Meetings
- Unlimited 1:1 meetings.
- Dogs in the office
Cons
A Company Powered by Fear, Not Leadership
This company survives on instability. Every few years, a new outsider is hired to “fix” the business — proof that leadership has no real direction. The cycle repeats, morale drops, and nothing truly changes.
Layoffs are constant for a company this size. If leadership doesn’t like you, the playbook is predictable: shift expectations, increase pressure, remove support, then label it “performance.” It feels less like business and more like targeting.
Executives operate on ego, not strategy. Accountability flows downward only. Public criticism replaces coaching. HR protects power, not people — and speaking up often makes you a target.
Budgets are cut. Corners are cut. Investment in employees do not exist. Competitors are innovating while this company shrinks its own future. The retail presence says everything.
The four-day WFH policy sounds progressive — until you realize it’s a burnout trap. Unrealistic deadlines mean unpaid overtime, and mistakes under pressure are used against you later.
Departments with the highest turnover are the most toxic. Layoffs every quarter create a culture of fear where no one dares to challenge leadership. Employees are treated as disposable, yet they are the only reason the company functions at all.
Mass retirement is coming within 10 years. New hires won’t stay long. A company that leads through fear eventually runs out of people to fear.
My advice? Don’t work here.
You’ll tell yourself, “Every company is like this,” or “It won’t happen to me.” That’s what everyone thinks — until it does.
If you’re willing to work long hours, overachieve, and fight to move up, at least do it somewhere that rewards performance and invests in its people — not somewhere that burns through them and calls it strategy. Work for a striving not dying company.