Pros
It was a paycheck and the people weren't openly hostile.
Cons
- I spent two years trapped in meetings where every real issue was endlessly reframed as a so called learning opportunity, and nobody was allowed to call anything broken, so nothing ever got fixed and everything just spun in circles until it lost meaning.
- Raising concerns was treated like disloyalty to the vision, which meant anything I said was automatically dismissed instead of taken seriously.
- In standups everything was always reported as green and running smoothly while we all knew it was collapsing, and I had to sit there and pretend that version of reality was real.
- Decisions kept getting made even when clear warning signs existed, because the people with the facts could not speak honestly without putting themselves at risk.
- It became a draining pattern of smiling through status updates while spending the rest of the day trying to stop problems everyone could see coming but nobody was allowed to say out loud.