- You might not get the stock options you've been promised. The stock option process is that your manager has 10 days at the beginning of the quarter to start the stock option grant process and get it approved by specific people. If anyone doesn't approve it for any reason (sick, off, forgot), you don't get your stock grant and need to wait for the next quarter. The number of the stock options in your grant depends on the stock price of the previous quarter. The stock price has doubled in the past 3 months, so employees who didn't get their stock options grant approved in time last month will get half the number of the stock options they were promised, in addition to not receiving stock options this quarter. Because of this, a fair number of people lost dozens of thousands of dollars. When this happens, no one will let you know that you're not getting your stock options. If you ask, the company will let you know that this is the company policy and that they have planned to change the way stock option grants work. It's been one year that the stock option grants are supposed to change in 2 quarters. It's still supposed to change in 2 quarters. - Each team gets the same budget for the pay increases (percentage-wise) and the team impact and performance doesn't matter. - A lot of smart people left. There are more and more employees who don't care about making an impact. - There are more and more dumb company policies and it's getting harder to challenge them but most people don't care. It's a bit like what you would see in a bank.
