Toxic Culture, Horrible Leadership - Strategic Projects Lead Scale Employee Review

1.0
Sep 5, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay Great perks like free therapy, which you will end up needing Good customers and interesting projects

Cons

60-80-hour work weeks Unprofessional, unstable, and quite inappropriate leadership Lack of enablement/good onboarding Toxic culture in which you're either being yelled at in front of your peers or talked about behind your back to your peers Stress and anxiety run from top to bottom. It's everywhere.

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5.0
Jul 13, 2026
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Pros

- Lot of flexibility as you get a say in how much core platform vs. customer-specific work you want to take up - Exciting growth avenues being pursued by organization in both enterprise and public sectors - Heavy emphasis on internal tooling being built that augments developer experience and pace of client delivery

Cons

- Sometimes, the team moves at a rapid pace at expense of sustainability/maintainability for short-term wins. - Lots of internal tooling being built are prematurely deployed for developers, and a lot of time goes into back-and-forth for gains that will only be visible in a large lookahead.

4.0
Jul 20, 2026
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Pros

- work with top tier clients across AI research - fast paced projects with insane amount of autonomy from day 1 - really solid pay for non-technical role - in-office/remote flexibility - nice office - accessible leadership - ability to pivot to new stuff if you do well - strong network with alumni all over AI - friendly folks - tech atmosphere with high degree of flexibility

Cons

- long hours but you start late and can wfh - weekends - not very structured and constantly changinf

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