The company was acquired in January of this year, a decision that was allegedly ours in order to fuel growth. Since then, the amazing company culture that was once our incentive to work here despite below average industry pay has been completely reversed and is now hyper toxic. Firstly, layoffs were executed despite years of promises from leadership that this would never happen, and despite one of the stated purposes of the acquisition being to ensure financial security for the company. The executives have done absolutely nothing to rebuild this trust and don’t seem to realize that nobody now trusts any of their decisions or motives, and that they’re doing anything except trying to ensure that they all get even richer. Secondly, said layoffs were handled in the worst possible manner, with employees aware they were happening but waiting around for 3 hours watching their email to see if they’d been selected, in essence a mock execution. Hard to believe that anyone with basic human empathy, never mind experience running a company, thought this was a good idea. Leadership touts a “culture of feedback” but feedback from employees is not valued or listened to by senior leadership. In fact, growth-oriented feedback meant to help people get better is taken and weaponized against people who receive it. Nobody in middle or upper management cares about whether a good job is actually being done or whether we are being innovative, they only care about the appearance of doing a good job and covering themselves. The politics and Machiavellian backstabbing are horrible. Leadership thinks we are doing something unique and different here vs every other consultancy but we’re not, we’re just being paid less. If you want to work somewhere that people actually believe in what they’re doing and are building something cool, go work for a start up. If you want to work in a toxic environment with the threat of layoffs, go work in big tech, because at least you’ll have a massive paycheck and stock to help you sleep at night. I wouldn’t recommend working here. Many people like myself who survived the layoffs are looking for another job.
