So, what’s cooking at the lab?
The leadership team is unprofessional and toxic. They have created an environment of verbal hostility and written aggression.
Fundamental business decisions are founder-driven. Like the Founding Fathers, except they still think they’re running a 13-colony startup.
The COO leads through intimidation. Has questionable agency, no empathy.
Instead of creating a healthy work culture, this environment is built on the toxicity structure at the top level: manipulation, corruption and power-seeking and then unchecked aggression on one side.... Weirdly, it only seems to be found at the very top. If you remove (most of) the ELT, the sunc comes through the cloud cover.
The CHRO has been made aware of these issues repeatedly. Multiple formal complaints have been filed. Nothing has changed.
On Leadership:
A public incident in Slack made it clear aggression, retaliation, and hostility toward employees are the norm. People spoke up. Two weeks later, leadership suddenly reorganized one of the teams that raised concerns.
The message is clear: stay quiet or deal with the consequences.
