Not a psychologically safe place for healthy disagreement, inflated sense of self-importance
Pros
Cafe is delightful Forced hybrid model is tolerable because the office is nice The #stonks channel is funny.
Cons
Well firstly, the stock price is in the toilet. That should tell you a few things right off the bat. No one wants to offend the CEO/Founder, so good product ideas get shelved, including millions of dollars in time wasted by product teams doing discovery and pitching products to the "Product Forum" only to get told that the CEO won't like it. This is despite data-driven analyses to prove out ROI on features, and certain features being on the top wish lists of all their enterprise customers. Lots of self-important talk about how complicated their product is; it's not that complicated. My background was in much more complex, technical products, but every time I referenced this I was told I was too new to understand and to go develop my product sense. My manager blocked me from talking to his higher-ups, wanted to control what I said and did in their presence. He ended up offering me a lot of money to leave, and lie about the fact that it was my choice to quit. Otherwise he threatened to put me on a PIP and exact quote, "you won't be able to succeed at this PIP." The area I was hired to work on STILL doesn't have those enterprise features that were at the top of customer lists, probably because my old boss is still blocking whatever poor sap took my place. I barely lasted 8 months and I was gaslit the whole time; I didn't know their product well enough, I didn't need to be discussing anything with my skip-levels, disagreements I raised or discrepancies I pointed out ended up getting used against me later. Bottom line, if you disagree with anything they say, expect to be blacklisted. It is not a psychologically safe place for healthy disagreement. You have to play along here in order to ship anything.
