The environment feels unwelcoming. There’s a couple of reasons. One is transparency. People tend to be overly secretive which makes you feel like an outsider. Speaking of outsider, I witnessed an instance where a recent hire was stopped and interrogated by an engineer at an company party because he felt like the person was an imposter despite the person carrying a pass. Really dude?
Some execs are plain selfish and care about their image rather than their team where the team has to put up with a lot of nonsense and bs coming through the exec. And I say ‘some’ because there are a few exceptional execs too.
Some teams are valued more then others. If you’re not in a ‘sexy’ team (ahm ahm eng, ds, ux), people will treat you quite differently... in a bad way.
Micromanagement. No explanation needed here. May depend on which team you’re in. I was unlucky in this case.
Did I mention work-life balance? The company’s response you’ll see on Glassdoor is “we’re discussing this on high levels”. Well, they keep on saying that but they don’t DO anything. Never have I heard anything from the leadership team regarding work-life balance ever since I joined. It’s simple, the company is understaffed and there’s way too many projects. You’d fall behind if you try to make it a 9-5 job. There is no wfh culture — people send out wfh reasoning via email to the entire company!!!
