- Co-founders claim to not have an inner-circle, but both of them are introverts. I've never seen them go out of their way to talk to or get to know employees outside of their inner-circle. Even when the CEO used to move desks frequently and I sat next to him for a month, he never once spoke a word to anyone else working in the pod. And that is exactly how you end up with an inner circle...
- Product team has had a lot of failures (Placed Pins, Q&A, Conversations, Digest, Library, etc). Reason for these failures are because the product team promotes PMs that are good at talking a big game and telling leadership exactly what they want to hear. However, PMs that have a different approach or think differently from leadership, but are great at executing against goals and delivering successful features/projects, have left, been sidelined, or pushed out. Talk & ideas are cheap, product leadership should reward the PMs that can demonstrate they are consistently able to execute and deliver.
- Company needs to hire a strong technical leader at the Directs level. Engineers don't feel like their needs and concerns are currently being well represented at the leadership level.
