- If you would tell me that the CEO was running a lemonade stand before taking over this company, I would have straight up tell you, "oh that makes total sense".
- The CEO, and basically the rest of the C-stars, have no control over the company
- People are just being disappeared over night with no explanation, happened multiple times just the past three months
- There is no clear indication of how the C-stars are aligned. the CEO will tell us one thing and in the next call the CTO will join us to say something else and then tell us how he still hasn't talked about it with the others. In a recent call, the CTO basically told us that he didn't want to answer a question from the audience because if he would get it wrong, he would be afraid of the CEO either killing him or firing him.
- The CEO would just randomly show on the most public channels of the company to rant about how something went wrong and go off on people about it. That's his strategy to improve things. And what's even funnier is that his allegations aren't even backed by data. He's that guy.
- There are other C-stars that personally I have no idea what they're doing in the company. They will show up on a call every now and then but I've never heard of any initiative or work they are doing.
- Strategy, vision, OKRs, forget it, theres none. There're in theory and some stuff have been shared around but exactly because there's no agreement on the C-level, no ones actually following them and no ones actually referencing them in any of our conversations
- Promotions? forget it, only the engineering managers and only those that are closer to the C-stars
- No communication, the company's culture is basically "keep everything in your head and keep going into calls talking" no writings, no formal processes, nothing. Teams in the same "group" as they call them, are in no communication what so ever. So it's typical for two teams of the same group to be working on the same thing over the course of a single quarter.
- Product is all over the place, directors and heads are coming and go every six months.
- Same on the engineering, no clear strategy, everyone's just doing what ever they want, new languages are being picked up for no reason out of the blue by a single person with no clear communication or explanation. Don't be surprised if you join and find your self writing Rust one day, Go the other day, JS/TS, Ruby, Python. Oh, and thats the "new system". The legacy system, which still serves most of the user base, is supposed to be deprecated since over a year ago, and every 3 months someone comes up to give us the new plan, and we're still here.
- Kafka in the middle with all sort of strategies. Everyone's just doing what ever they want.
- Everyone is burned out in general