Don't fall for the cultish antics. Just because it seems shiny and perfect on the outside doesn't mean it's anywhere remotely close to that on the inside. Ironically enough, even though monday advertises that it will help you reduce meetings and collaborate more effectively, I was stuck in meetings for 20+ hours a week as an individual contributor on a regular basis. These meetings were far from efficient. Collaboration at monday was figuratively like if you took collaboration, mixed it in a blender with crack, and had it packaged by Charles Manson. Completely inane debates that contributed absolutely nothing to our work would go on for 20 minutes straight. People switched teams so frequently, by the time I established a working relationship with a colleague, they would move to another team and I would have to start the same process again from scratch, again with no support. It was unbelievably exhausting. Not only that, but new teams would pop up randomly all the time, and there was no one owning cross-team decisions. So campaigns or tests would launch on pages that hadn't been live for months on end. When terrible survey results came back, we instead discussed whether yoga or coffee dates would help us bond as a team. Real issues were routinely ignored. At least half a dozen people left my department at monday within weeks of when I did citing the nasty political culture that developed there. Gossip and rumors spread like wildfire, and people would regularly stab each other in the back just to get a few brownie points. I had to sit in an hour-long presentation not once but twice while an entire team took credit for the success of a project I had spearheaded over the course of an entire year. Worse still, I was shocked at the level of incompetence. A very large number of people I encountered had little to no relevant experience, and many others could barely string together a coherent, let alone compelling, sentence. In fact, I can acutely recall many presentations that were so full of meaningless corporate jargon, I honestly wanted to cry. Or bang my ahead against the table. Meanwhile, monday would throw elaborate events to celebrate initiatives that were only half-finished or not even remotely successful even though they were and still are losing millions and millions of dollars every quarter.
