- Company in general has a very high turnover rate and it is hard to keep up with what new managers want. This middle-management churn results in a work environment that feels like it's in constant chaos.
- Performance reviews depend greatly on one person's opinion which is often a biased or faulty opinion. At one point in time I had a blatantly sexist manager who severely underestimated me and condescended to me constantly. He was the primary person responsible for my performance reviews and meeting with me for 1:1 feedback. It went exactly as you would expect. Luckily, because of the management turnover, this only lasted for a handful of months. My next manager still underestimated me and condescended to me but at least he wasn't sexist.
- Coworkers were either fantastic human beings who were exceedingly helpful and kind, or extremely lazy, unprofessional, and make you dread coming to work. These toxic individuals are highly visible and have a far-reaching adverse effect. It is telling that management has done nothing to address this.
- Very little personal development and career support. I would set goals for managers and myself to work towards in my professional development and found that I was always left on my own with nothing being followed up on.
- Lots of "ideas people" in positions of influence. Not realistic ideas, just ideas. They do not want to take advice or opinions from the people actually delivering the product. It was demoralizing to have no say in the product direction, be given an impossible task, and then be blamed and criticized when the project goes exactly the way we repeatedly warned it would. Trust your experts, not your idealists.
- Ambitious to a fault. Everything is excessively rushed, and deadlines are consistently too short for the amount of work required. "This needs to be done yesterday" is a phrase I have come to loathe. Crunch time is all the time. Goals seem forever out of reach. Compensation is just ok relative to the immense effort we put in. Work life balance is poor in that there is enormous pressure to be "always on" and thinking about work-related things in personal time because we are always overcommitted. It is not uncommon for people to work 10-12 hour days and still respond to Slack messages in the evening. This is not sustainable, and burnout and low morale among employees is becoming more and more evident.
- Company wins are almost always celebrated solely among the sales teams instead of the teams who painstakingly developed the product. Without the product and dev teams there wouldn't be anything to sell, a fact that is taken for granted at Clearpath.
- Company budget for swag, fun office items, and other day to day perks is being visibly slashed. Similarly-sized startups in the area are doing the opposite. Clearpath is not competitive in this regard.
