Company on the verge of dying - Anonymous employee Limeade Employee Review

- You can tell when a particular company has not much left time-wise. Politics and meetings are 95% of time. Half the people are managing some kind of "projects", and no software ever gets shipped. Sheer number of people in management is choking any kind of work and dotted-line relationships mean no decisions ever get made by those who actually do the work. - Majority of people hired into tech roles don't have the technical chops to make it. To contribute to this issue, they get even worse at Limeade since there is no work happening and tech stack is stuck in ancient days. The ones that care about being employable later on are leaving or have left. - Culture of fear was chosen over trust. There is absolutely zero desire to take risks as you get punished for every one of them. It is easier to do nothing and "work from home". - There is complete secrecy surrounding firings or people leaving and huge amount of turn over. People find out anyway, so there is huge rumor mill and absolute fear from leadership to be truthful as it may accelerate turnover even more. - Most in the company know that HR can not be trusted. Any opinion that doesn't fit the propaganda leads to eventual HR witch hunt and hugely demoralizing working environment. Many disengaged workers just constantly complain about current culture over 3 hour lunches, I even stopped having lunches with co-workers as it was too depressing. - People get promoted on simple length of "sentence served" and absolute failures covered up by pretty powerpoints. There are tons of people that are in positions with zero experience for those positions. - Huge control issues. People seem to be more interested in getting someone to do things their way than to getting anything done. - Tech stack (and decisions going forward made by those who don't understand tech) are setting up Limeade to fail technologically and they are set in stone and planned for many years ahead. That failure was covered up for a while by slick marketing work, but you can only go so far before it starts blowing up on you slowly but surely. - There is somehow the myth of "agile" environment that's based on heavy upfront planning lol. New hires can't figure out at first if we are joking or not when we call this Agile. There are many more people hours spent in planning that on any work that comes out of it. Honestly, I have never worked in environment as depressing as this. Despite best efforts of many involved with genuine desire to make a difference in the world. I squarely point blame finger on leadership as putting that effort to waste. I have seen pockets of collaboration, productivity, trust-based relationships, but they are completely choked out by HR and leadership. As soon as they occur they get taken over by some kind of "project manager" who will be focused on bringing things under his/her control, therefore destroying any benefit that comes out of those. I would advise this company only to those who would like to do nothing for half a year, collect large paycheck (so director or higher) and search for other opportunities along the way.