Pros
Friends and money was to be made, but compensation is better elsewhere!
Cons
The CEO is the single biggest liability this company has. Hiring is based on personal relationships, not qualifications. People get brought in because the CEO can’t say no to friends, and they get let go when they don’t perform, which was predictable from day one. Meanwhile, employees who actually challenge him or outshine him get pushed out under the guise of “business decisions.” The pattern is obvious to everyone on the inside. When an employee makes a mistake, there is no coaching. Instead, the CEO singles them out publicly and puts them through what can only be described as a humiliation ritual. Forcing them to repeatedly address the error in front of others until he decides he’s satisfied. This happens regularly and is one of the most demoralizing things I’ve witnessed in a professional environment. If you disagree with leadership or call out a lie, the lie gets bigger. You will not win. And if you decide to leave, be prepared this company has a pattern of pursuing legal action against former employees. Not because they have a case, but because the CEO uses it as a control mechanism. Business strategy is essentially nonexistent. When things go wrong and they go wrong constantly… it is never leadership’s fault. Ever. The processes are so slow and broken that we regularly lose strong candidates to competitors mid-pipeline. The company is losing ground every quarter and doubling down on the same dysfunction. Everyone sees it. Nobody says it out loud, because they’ve watched what happens to people who do.