Pros
- You can learn a lot of managerial theories. Whatever hyped fad will appear in the horizon, a quarter later we will be implementing it, and quarter later dropping as not working. But there is another one coming, so you will test them all. - If you like to blindly follow, you will like it here. Nobody was fired here for doing things fast but without thinking. Management lacks domain knowledge so much, that they will believe that if they couldn't foresee this obvious no-go blocker, nobody could. So you are safe, and maybe even advance as their puppet, if you will stay silent when needed and praise their ideas as genious ones.
Cons
- No adults in the rooom, after a decade we are still a hippie startup (just with 2000+ people) that should be able somehow ignore the past, the current and being able to pivot on whim, as we are still searching for a holy grail, cause the one we found that allowed us to grow is supposedly not big enough. So we are frequently re-organizing our structures into another mutation of spotify model as a solution to chaos and lack of growth. - There is a feeling of superiority from the management - that you are inferior to them, less intelligent, less knowledgable, failing to their "management tricks" etc. This is breaking trust and cooperation, as if you want to advance you have to join their "club", so yesterday's friend is your enemy tomorrow, and it is better not to stand out by accident and land on the blacklist. - They stopped to care about people, so people are doing now just 9 to 5. management is making then a pikachu face why we don't grow in this economy as fast as AI companies, and as a solution mass fires people to improve "something". So merged company lost already lots of domain knowledge from two big rounds of firing, there is nobody for maintenance, but it doesn't matter - we need to go faster... but not clever. Fresh yesterday's strategic initiatives are axed, customers left alone, but nobody cares, as a new shiny things is on the horizon.