If you are considering joining the marketing team, PLEASE read this first.
I’m writing this because I’m genuinely concerned for the people on this team and for anyone who might join unaware.
The problems start at the top. The vast majority of the team has raised the flag on serious culture and resource issues, and the CMO/VP tunes out anything that isn’t vapid affirmation. Every directive is ChatGPT-generated: job titles, team functions, strategy, all in the name of looking progressive, with no real skill or judgment behind it. These never-ending mandates get pushed down onto lower-level employees to execute with no tools and no support.
Each person is doing the work of three, and that only gets worse as more people quit.
Many people work late into the night while a select few hand down mandates. There are no boundaries between work and personal life, and a prevailing attitude that this is just how the modern workplace operates. Pay is low, but even if it weren’t, nothing is worth your mental and emotional health.
One thing that won’t be obvious from the outside: even the team members who appear to be fine are furiously applying to jobs on the side. The calm surface is not the full picture.
I’ll add one honest impression. In person, the CMO/VP left me genuinely unsettled in a way I couldn’t fully explain. If you get that same feeling, trust it.
You will likely be told that things are “just about to get good.” That line has been used with no real change for a long time. Even in this job market, there is always something better than what you’d be walking into here.
