-Bonuses are not defined. It's a bucket of cash and districted solely on manager discretion
-Equity is bottom of the barrel. We lose people all the time to places that pay more in equity to ICs than Workiva offers for VPs
-Politics - it's all around. If you're not on the same train, You're not in the "club"
-Too much faith in ESG. Companies need to get back to profit and are aware. The teams built around ESG were a good idea when it was thought to be an unstoppable initiative, but as markets have shown, it's just sort of in the background for the most part. Even the most recent SEC ruling won't drive demand the way Workiva expects.
-Promotions are not given as deserved. Or even as promised. Requirements for promotions change all the time and there is no formal process dept to dept. If you get put on a long term project, or are on leaves your progress towards a promotion is absolutely stalled (which is illegal when your on LOA for certain cases) and I've seen instances where end of year performance and rating is affected.