Psychologically unsafe with no values beyond money
Pros
- Good pay - Solid benefits - Company is doing well (because employees are worked to the bone)
Cons
- Quarterly reviews are designed to weed out people who aren't willing to do the Silicon Valley 996 (9am-9pm 6 days per week). - No work/life balance encouraged. CEO regularly messages about expectation of working nights and weekends in emails and all hands meetings. - People are disposable. Multiple colleagues fired during my short 1.5 year tenure. No PIPs or warnings are offered, people aren't given a chance to improve prior to being let go unexpectedly. It only takes one performance review that's not the top level to be fired. - Intense pressure for things that shouldn't be so stressful. Lives are not on the line! - Leadership's pressure trickles down to teams creating unsafe culture of fear. - No company values beyond making as much money as possible. - Drink the kool-aid culture; if you don't drink it, you won't last. - Terminated while struggling with protected disability that was disclosed to boss; offered no accommodations or support to manage challenges. - Backstabbing culture; boss treated me like a friend then used everything I shared in confidence to weaponize it against me. - Rude colleagues; was continuously ignored when trying to extend an olive branch from marketing to product. Even a warm intro from a product teammate was ignored.
