The problem is that with this casual, informal environment, some internal processes are neglected and there is not a lot of long-term thought given to career and employee growth. Employees are instead treated as expendable, with little investment given from the company to employees to perform their jobs and further their skills.
Laptops, devices, are not given to employees and you are expected to use your own. The Engineering team is understaffed/underpaid and therefore burnout is rampant, employee churn rate is remarkably high, and any moment spent away from one's desk is frowned upon. Employee performance is not tracked in any measurable way by managers, so the path to internal promotion is a combination of nepotism, brown-nosing, and luck. It is frequent that employees are singled-out in Slack channels for any failures or deadlines not being met, and toxic gossiping runs thick in the DNA of LeafLink.
Inexperienced Management means that very little concern is given to working conditions, and everyone is expected to "hustle" and "GSD" at a salary that often falls under the 50th percentile. LeafLink's upper management will continue to base decision making on extreme cost-cutting practices, while at the same time rewarding manager behavior that does not create value for the company (poor project planning, non-stop travel, and repetitive mistakes).
1 on 1 meetings with (the already inexperienced) managers are infrequent, about once a month, meaning requests and changes do not travel upwards very fast. The feedback then given by managers is often either personal (i.e. irrelevant), not actionable, or un-based (due to the aforementioned lack of performance tracking frameworks).
I would not recommend working for LeafLink if you are anything lower than middle management.
