I am writing this not out of spite or anger, just sharing my personal experience. It was stressful, it was a beat down every month, it was sad not being able to spend as much time as I should have with the little one in consequence to the extra hours and the disorganization when it came to distribution of work within the team. If you complain about doing too many hours, they will tell you to do less, but when the quality of the work drops because you don’t have those extra 10-20 hours to review or to get more detailed information they will raise hell and complain. They have zero respect for your personal time, and everything seems to always be in flames and burning so it requires your full attention even after work hours (Got worse every month, cannot imagine how much worse it will get now that they are going public). There were times I was receiving requests at 8PM.
Management based on my experience is bad at almost every level. They are concerned with themselves only and if you bring up an issue and it gets addressed you can feel extremely lucky and you might as well sing HALLELUJA, and if you don’t like the culture or what’s going on they prefer you to leave then address the issue. Management is all about self preservation and could care less about those below them (based on my personal experience), also don’t expect transparency or honesty (One week you will be told one thing, and the next it is the complete opposite).