Pros
camaraderie over the unanimous sense that we are all on the chopping board
Cons
the company has a complete inability to determine a path forward and stick to it, with constant turnover across all levels (in less than 3 years, there were 2 CEOs, 3 CMOs, 2 COOs, 2 CFOs) and a complete lack of accountability to any individual or group of people to create a working model that stays around long enough to actually get anything done. Budgets get reforecasted at least twice a year (typically more) and every single person is expendable, regardless of performance or impact, as a result of the inability to pick a plan and stick with it. The primary motivation for any given plan is how to spend as little money as possible, wasting the talent of many individuals that come from larger brands with hopes to do the "disruptive" work in tech promised by recruiters and leaders. The work is asked to be done on a laughable budget that often doesn't even allow for assets to be developed for campaigns. This is a "disruptive" and "breakthrough" tech company that can't automate basic systems that have led to customers being unable to send money home to sick family members, and then tries to quiet the upset customers by hiding comments and shutting down suffering corridors, rather than look in the mirror and have an ounce of accountability. Budgets are so tight that leaders were forced to deny people standard travel regulations for travel this year. To that end, the senior team is constantly going on retreats and then simultaneously turning around and telling teams they need to cut budget. This is the culture being pushed to the organization. Benefits and basic tools and elements like how to use Slack are not consistent across the organization and when the staff complains about the stress this causes, they are asked to be patient because the teams are stretched so thin. In some instances, people weren't paid correctly for months, and were still told to be patient with no timeline for resolution.
