Pros
The product works, which is impressive given the amount of internal “let’s rethink everything” energy it survives on.
Smart people everywhere constantly fixing things that were just declared “mission critical” and are now apparently “phase out.”
You get very good at chaos navigation, context-switching, and translating leadership statements into whatever they mean by Friday.
No shortage of work—mostly because nothing is allowed to stay finished long enough to count as done.
“Ownership” is real here. You’ll own something right up until it gets quietly reassigned, reframed, or spiritually rebranded.
Cons
Priorities don’t really change—they get overwritten mid-sentence and everyone just pretends that’s normal.
Meetings exist mainly to confirm that whatever you just did is no longer what we’re doing.
Turnover is high enough that “context” should probably be sold as a paid subscription.
You’ll meet someone, assume they’re critical to the system, and then they’re gone so fast you wonder if you imagined their role.
Execution is solid at the individual level, but constantly rerouted by decisions that arrive after the work is already in production.
“Focus” is announced regularly, then immediately followed by expanding the definition of focus.
The company sometimes feels like a ship where the compass is just whichever direction was last said with confidence.