Pros
- You meet interesting people through work - Some of the products are exciting to work with - The innovative market from the technological part - In some product and marketing roles, you get to work with users of the product - they are just amazing
Cons
- No actions to back up “People first”, making it is just a phrase that is being repeated - Pay under the market average - Hight burnout rate within different teams (several people took sick leave with doctor´s notice for that reason) - No accountability among the leadership team, non-ability to plan and execute strategically - CEO isn´t present in daily life and isn´t in touch with people (not even with managers) - COO is toxic and micromanages every team with the constant change of decisions The way a company fires and lays off says more about its culture, than first impressions. Here is my experience of layoff: 1. I was laid off by paper mail. Nobody spoke to me about layoff (not even over a call): not my manager, no one from HR or Leadership team. 2. I was laid off while I was on sick leave. 3. Originally offered severance pay didn´t match regulations. 4. HR wasn´t negotiating severance pay over email (I tried to do it in a friendly manner, before going through the legal system). 5. After involving lawyers, we settled in pre-court mediation, increasing my severance pay x3 times. It´s not the worst company I worked for and could have been among the best, if not for the last year of my employment there. Unfortunately, certain unprofessional management practices are tolerated, resulting in a 20-people team shrinking to a 6-people team in less than a year.
