Pros
Permanent work from home is the golden handcuff tying 99% of the people to this toxic company.
Cons
What is it like seeing a company getting destroyed in front of your own eyes? It's with a very heavy heart that I write this today. Fourth round of mass-layoffs today within 1.5 years. What used to be a warm and intellectually rejuvenating place, with people collaborating and challenging each other to do better, is now a desolate and intellectually challenged place, marked by gossiping and toxicity. "We care about your mental health", is the buzz-phrase used by the leaders of the company in Townhalls and all-hands meetings as the remaining employees stare at them in disbelief watching their hard-working colleagues who had worked their entire lives for the same company get laid off one after another with no empathy and no value for their knowledge or loyalty. All the leaders who were "Action People", who used to get their hands dirty solving problems along with employees, are all gone now. Who remain are just "Talkers" - people who demand results with just talks - never getting their hands dirty. Most of them sound like ChatGPT on voice-mode droning on and on without reaching a point. Leaders are now known for lies and deceit, than anything else. And they say mass lay-offs are the norm now - all companies are doing it. Why is the livelihood and lives of people destroyed because of the incompetence of the leadership? Shouldn't we be firing leadership instead of the employees? When did we end up normalising this abhorrently reverse trend? Some people said it's because of AI. Well, at least in my company it isn't - because they even laid off people who were working with AI. It isn't about performance or knowledge either, because I know hardworking and knowledgeable people get laid off. The people who remain live in doubt and anxiety about whether they'll have their jobs in the next 3 months. Part of me feels this hostile and toxic environment is created intentionally so that people leave themselves. But it's having the opposite effect. People who remain here are reducing work to a trickle to get laid off - with severance - in the next round, which happens every 3 months. TalentNeuron - living life here one quarter at a time; a place marked by fake leaders and a festering culture.
