GoCo has a lot of growing pains typical to many companies at this stage. It's a weird space between being a startup and a mature company and you have to be very agile to thrive in it. Some of the current downsides of navigating this space are:
- Burnout is common, especially with the most tenured employees who have been keeping this pace for years. Those who do not come from a start-up environment or are not used to a higher level of ambiguity also do not last very long.
- High expectations of employees because we are often flexing across roles and working with less resources (I do appreciate that GoCo has been extremely thoughtful with staffing and didn't do the typical tech start-up move of mass hiring followed by a mass layoff, but some teams are definitely spread too thin)
- Less structure and clear career paths in place (many people have paved their own way to advancement but now that we're a much bigger team this is becoming a con)