I was on the fence about the new CEO for a long time. But here we are in February and still haven't received our year-end raises (for US employees. I'm not sure about other countries but hope they are treated better.) I'm told the package of raises is on the CEO's desk and just awaiting his approval. Other than telling us in an AMA that we shouldn't expect COLA and raises are earned at this company. If that's true, the implication is that not a single US employee earned a raise in 2025. I think what's more likely is that the CEO either thinks he can get away with stringing the employees along, or he just doesn't care what we think. If the raises are so important that they have to be personally approved by the CEO, they should be important enough for him to make time to approve them. This is the first time the raises have been delayed like this, but I've worked at a place before that fell into a cycle of delay and then pay cuts and once you've started down that slope it's hard to get off of it.
