Pros
Remote working. Great peers. Birthday off.
Cons
Day to day work: - 9am and 5pm meetings are standard, great when you have children to drop off at school - Lunchtime all-company meetings are commonplace Incompetent HR Have to be given permission to do things - not allowed to work on your own initiative Top heavy org - firing workers and hiring more and more VPs Nepotism - Hiring friends as contractors on £800 per day - Complaining there is “no budget” - Making people redundant to replace with contractors after 6 months Compensation: - Promotions without pay rises - Hiring & pay freezes - Salaries already below market rate and falling - No opportunity for progression in a shrinking team - Cannot hire replacements as anybody that values themselves does not apply - Neurodivergent? Don’t even bother applying. - Remaining people expected to backfill roles and do the job of 3 people with zero acknowledgement, appreciation, or respect. - “You’re lucky to have a job” mentality. Toxic environment - Encouraged to throw others under the bus to save your own skin and avoid being cut - Told not to “work late” whilst simultaneously rewarding those who do - Speaking up is encouraged, and then immediately used to discipline you - Harassment and bullying is commonplace Change for change sake - Mentality that change is good, with no consideration for the impact of change - Sometimes a change can be worse, more often than not within this org Wild hockey stick revenue predictions based on no data or roadmap - Workers punished when insane projections are not met - Underfunded business in a now oversaturated market - Better funded competitors in the space that are accelerating away, leaving BridgeU in the dust