Pros
A handful of great co-workers
Cons
Where to begin. There are just so many issues, and they all stem from the C-suite: 1) Complete incompetence. Sales have declined for 2 straight years and this C-suite literally doesn’t know what to do. Last year they paid millions of dollars to multiple consulting firms to develop a muddled, unrealistic strategy based on monkey math that they ditched soon after. This year they switched strategy again because they all read a book that showed they were doing it wrong. A book! Can’t make this stuff up. These guys change their minds more than I change clothes. 2) No vision or prioritization which results in constant start/stop projects, resource competition, extremely overworked teams and poor morale, and no progress or results. There is ZERO fruit for your labor. Be prepared to be asked to urgently develop a plan, spend weeks burning the midnight oil on it, only to then be told there’s no funding. 3) There has been 30-50% turnover in the last year, plus a massive round of layoffs. To say teams are lean, stressed and overworked is putting it nicely. Only VPs stick around because they are heavily compensated for doing so. 4) This C-suite is atrociously arrogant and does not care about its people...at all. Very callous attitude behind closed doors, punishment for those that challenge them, bad news (eg hiring freeze, layoffs) delivered to employees over email, blame thrown everywhere, and the most fake showing of “let’s make the culture better” I’ve ever seen. All talk and no action on the people side. HR is just as bad. Deserving junior people never get promoted and bonus payouts have been cut, yet the C-suite and founders spend millions traveling the world with top consultants hosting lavish parties. While sales tank. It’s sickening. 5) Irresponsible financial management for a company that’s in decline. The lavish parties aren’t all. We have a mostly empty San Ramon office solely because the CEO lives near there and won’t give it up. We keep promoting VP+ employees and get even more top-heavy while no one remains to do the work. We have $600M of debt and I wouldn’t be surprised if we declare bankruptcy in a year. The list goes on and on but I’ll stop there.