Pros
Some very lovely people somehow worked there
Cons
On my first day, “Shine Bright Like a Diamond” played in the background of a teams meeting. The on-camera staff were giving the GIF when you type in “awkward” and get the young girl who went viral. We all know that girl, and we all know that visceral feeling when we’ve made a terrible mistake. For me, it was the Theranos-esque business I landed in under the shiny things; the diamonds. New laptops and screens, opportunities for growth, Rihanna. It didn’t take long to plug the technology in to realise it was a sham - there were no opportunities or a viable product - only forever growing demands and expectations for staff to shape shift their capabilities to meet client requests. These requests were unclear and/or unrealistic, and were drastically under scoped by management who had little to no idea. Rihanna would be disappointed, her intent for the song was very different and it’s a sad oxymoron. In Struber’s context, you could never shine, you were always in a pre-diamond phase where only pressure was applied. A professional purgatory. Management were erratic and careless, offering no support, emotional or otherwise, to the people who were expected to go above and beyond. We’ve all heard about Elizabeth Holmes and how easy it is to sell a dream, but this was a waking nightmare. In some regards, and maybe it’s just the adaptation in The Dropout (highly recommend), Elizabeth’s character was initially endearing. She had a vision that, if it worked, could’ve made such a lasting difference to American healthcare. But bless, she had no idea how to roll it out. The only vision Struber management has is to grow their property portfolios (highly do not recommend).
