My worst work experience due to toxic behaviours across Leadership
Pros
- powerful and useful product to build, sell and improve - international environment where you can thrive and polish your stakeholder management skills and English command - generous employee benefits and SWAG (for example, +1 PTO day for your birthday) - nice office(s) in Warsaw - opportunities to grow horizontally and doing internal mobility movements - great office and company events - investing in EB heavily - stable contract of employment and offering RSUs - you can make some friends and meet smart people, if you're lucky :) - there are some decent Engineering Managers out there
Cons
- Company Values are just on the paper and Make Your Mom Proud means nothing, because there is no human decency and morality among Leadership (for example: offering candidates way below the internally approved salary ranges just because the candidates had lower salary expectations) - Leadership / Directors are always right, they are not open to hear feedback or improve anything, they just wanna hear praises and nice things - there's back stabbing and gossips everywhere so better watch yourself - removing uncomfortable people is a norm, especially when they could get in the way of a Manager being promoted or they would reveal his incompetence - Managers care more about their promotion than promoting their direct reports - there are managers with no people management skills whatsoever, micromanagers encouraging people to work from their vacation and sick leaves, not supporting taking more than a week of PTO, during 1:1's talking more about their travels, plans or loans in francs than about your work and how to unblock you, thriving a culture of blame, fear, silence, obedience and working over hours; gossiping and complaining about other people and other direct reports with you during your 1:1's, if they got a negative feedback in the employee surveys they were provoking weird conversations and sharing guesses who was the author the negativre feedback, not interested in any feedback or improvement because they considered a direct report can't give them feedback; led several direct reports to burnout, ending in a hospital or having a severe breakdown, masters of gaslighting - the most toxic work culture I ever experienced with corporate politics and playing games - no work life balance if you work from Europe - I've seen people who were fired unfairly just because their Managers didn't like them and wanted to get rid of them