The epitome of the "fake it, til you make it" motto of many tech companies. As the human element, there is a sense that the executive leadership wishes that the DE org didn't exist. The organization went lean in fall 2020 without offering any significant changes in salaries, benefits, or management style to those who were kept on. Layoffs went hand-in-hand with a lockdown on internal communications after the company received bad press during BLM protests, resulting in an atmosphere of fear and anxiety. More than a year later, trust in leadership remains low, rates of burnout are high and expectations are unrealistic in demanding humans to perform as if they were computers. If you're going to join the DE org, ensure that you already have your next step planned- outside of Dataminr. Once you hit a wall in this role, it's terribly difficult to recover.