There is a culture of secrecy and obfuscation around high-level decisions that is felt company-wide and is almost insultingly obvious. Recently moved back to a 4-1 rotation ignoring what the company seems to be screaming for and almost certainly moving to 5-0 as soon as they possibly can. This has made hiring reliable, quality talent incredibly difficult between pay and work-life balance. There seems to be no structure to compensation levels, and it's all just worked out by C-suite levels who give little to no information on how they came to that conclusion, The pay is significantly lower than the market average for a company of this size and quality. I'm positive the shift will push back to 5-0 rapidly, and the sentiment will be "Oh well, deal with it" and lean on an upcoming economic recession to mitigate any pushback from the hiring pools/existing employees which I have overhead multiple employees openly joke about. I don't know about you but "Where else are they going to go now" isn't a company culture I'd like to be a part of. Seems like the company is facing questionable times (as are many) but decided to abandon most of the things they so flagrantly boasted about during COVID/pre-pandemic times. My exit interview lasted around 10 minutes and felt like I was bothering the person facilitating it. Do not work here, they're marching in a very bad direction.
