Executive-level leadership does not care, in any observable way, about its employees. Company meetings with feedback and AMA have been entirely canceled, pay raises, summer camps, team offsites, bonuses, paths for growth - all are completely gone. You will scarcely hear from your executive leaders and when you do, it is platitudes and meaningless corporate jargon that doesn't address any of the actual needs or frustrations of the employees. They hide in their tower while every team in the company is suffering.
Cost-cutting has become the executive-level obsession, they will replace anyone and everyone, even the very best people that have ever worked at the company, with AI or contracted workers, with absolutely zero remorse. They continue to integrate more and more Ai-powered systems despite claiming to be a company about sustainability. They have no interest in getting to know anyone, they don't care about your life, contributing competitively to your healthcare premiums, raising your wage during a particularly inflationary few years, they simply don't care. Your team can be masterfully fiscal, tens of thousands of dollars below quarterly budget, and they don't even want to hear about merit increases, they won't ask how they can better support your team, if you are staffed well enough... They Do. Not. Care.
To make matters worse, for some inconceivable reason, they have begun micro-managing every department like crazy. So the reality is this: you hear nothing from leaders, you can't pass feedback up the chain, there is no avenue through which feedback can be provided, then you'll hear from mid-management that leadership wants you to output more, or start to work weekends, or make due with less. There is nothing you can do and no one you can speak to about your frustrations. People Ops plays pretend that everything is great and if you give them feedback they just type an empty 2-paragraph response about how they are working hard to transition to the changing landscape, or something.
Any leadership quality you can summon up in your mind is not found in Cotopaxi's executive leadership team. Self-awareness? Painfully absent. Respect? They give you none, yet expect it to be given. Compassion? Nope. Vision? We are approaching the mid-point of the year with no unifying vision or company goal, having not met as a company since early December. Communication? Nonexistent. Gratitude? Only if "work harder for less money" means gratitude.
