Pros
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Cons
Repeat after me. I will start my days in meetings at 7:30 a.m. I will be triple-booked until 6:30 p.m., bouncing from meeting to meeting with barely enough time to think, let alone create. And only after everyone else has gone home will I begin the work I was actually hired to do. I will work nights. I will work weekends. I will answer texts from my bosses after hours because that's simply what's expected. I will spend hours developing ideas only to sit through meetings where I'm made to question whether I know what I'm doing at all. Slowly, almost without noticing, I will lose confidence in instincts that have served me for more than two decades. I will watch the people at the top travel the world, stand on stages, celebrate wins, and build their careers while the people doing the work stay behind—exhausted, overbooked, and invisible. Repeat after me. Don't come here. Don't come here. Don't come here. Don't come here. If you're a woman who expects to be respected, don't come here. If you're a minority looking for a culture where you'll feel seen and supported, this wasn't my experience. If you have self-respect and want to hold onto it, don't come here. If you want to spend your days creating instead of defending your work, don't come here. What I found wasn't collaboration. I found politics. I found backstabbing disguised as alignment. I found performative leadership instead of thoughtful leadership. I found an environment where confidence is chipped away one meeting at a time. I found myself questioning my own abilities after twenty years of proving them everywhere else. It felt isolating. It felt dismissive. It felt exhausting. It felt like every day I had to earn the right to be heard all over again. If you don't believe how damaging a culture like this can be, ask the people who have lived through it alongside me. I know I'm not the only one who walked away feeling smaller than when I arrived. So one last time... Repeat after me. Don't come here. They are lying to you. The salary isn’t worth it. The speed is ridiculous. The culture is abusive. The people are slippery. Run. Go anywhere else.
