Negative workplace culture. Weirdly hierarchical vibe despite the small company size and early stage - definitely a you vs. me vibe between leadership and the rest of the team. Lots of ego and power posturing from leadership, including humiliating people in meetings by purposefully making them look stupid. Leadership assigns blame like attack dogs when things aren't going well. Zero psychological safety, people are afraid to mess up or be on the wrong side of an opinion.
So much turnover. Over half of the AI and product teams churned over the span of 6-8 months. Low morale - engineers constantly feeling like there are more high priorities than they can possibly accomplish with their team, and when they don't succeed, they get blamed. Honestly don't know how to be successful here, and know that many feel the same.
Poor/absent people management. Ask about when the most recent employee satisfaction survey was, and what changes they've made to improve things (hint: never and nothing).
Don't work here if you want to feel like a valued person, as opposed to just a "resource". Don't work here if you want to feel like you're working on a motivated, cohesive team, as opposed to working to keep your job. Don't work here if you want any kind of professional development or feel like anyone cares about how you're doing, whether you're learning and growing.
