Pros
the culture is more open, and collaborative than most. People are intelligent, thoughtful, professional, and learning oriented. Everything is flexible. People have a lot of autonomy. Having so little structure/management could be a good thing or bad depending on who you are and what your job is.
Cons
People don’t get the support they need to grow, fix performance issues, or…to do their job at all, some of the time. Leadership is dysfunctional. Especially the 2 owners. The CEO/majority owner has an astonishing inability to listen, empathize, or communicate. He resists the changes people have been asking for for years, then makes excuses about how it’s not his job to solve other people’s problems. He talks the talk about how it’s supposed to be a trusting, self-organizing workplace, but he doesn’t actually trust or respect employees, or let them do anything to improve the company if it wasn’t his idea. Some key people have quit due to years of frustration. They will probably keep leaving. Or else management will cut the workforce once their lack of business and leadership skills leads to a major loss in revenue. DEI at this company is a joke. There is no formal structure or accountability for DEI. There is no HR. Women are not treated equally, and who knows if pay is equal. We just get a bunch of unselfaware rich white guy explanations of how they’re already doing so much and trying so hard. Don’t believe it.