Most of the company's problems come down to a dysfunctional C-suite and extreme org-wide micromanagement. C-level executives constantly involve themselves in issues well below their pay grades, and those executives have no idea how these low-level projects are supposed to work. As a result, most initiatives are poorly thought out and get rushed, stalled, and changed after rollout constantly and everyone at the company ends up confused about what's going on. Executives make thoughtless remarks at all-company meetings and demand changes to finished work on a daily basis, which can both be highly demotivating. Executives also place blame for any and all performance issues and resulting layoffs on low-level employees and “the markets” rather than their own strategy. For lower-level employees, pushing back on bad ideas is a waste of time - leaders rarely listen to feedback from employees. The CEO is a very nice person, but much of this messy culture comes from him as a leader. Company-wide decisions are made based on his personal working preferences rather than data, subject matter expertise or the needs/wants of employees. Senior leaders show up late or not at all to meetings, which leads to everyone working under them doing the same. Managers often visibly struggle to present executive decisions as good ideas to their teams.
