CEO has no idea what he's doing - Anonymous employee Compliable Employee Review

Did our best to look after employees and find a way forward.

We didn't quite get there.

From day 1, I've had culture and sustainability for the company in mind. From designing an engineering pipeline that does turn to spaghetti after 5 years, to hiring and retention methods installed at the start, we've always thought long term about what type of place we wanted to create. The end goal being that if we weren't able to do things sustainably, that it probably wasn't worth doing. That doesn't mean everything is always great. There are times when we had to push. Unexpected events or global pandemics that required all hands on deck to go above and beyond. However, when people are prepared for it, and not exhausted, we were able to pull through those rough spots. We are not rock stars. We are not ninjas. We do not need Heroes to succeed. Hero cultures live and die by the individuals who take that role. We are a group of people who respect the possibilities of what can be accomplished by working together, all pulling in the same direction. Our values matter to us, and we try to instill them into what we do daily.

We're a startup transitioning to a Small Company. A lot of change is involved in that, and a lot of focusing our limited resources on specific goals. That means we sometimes are behind the curve on getting more people into positions that can support the incoming work. It gets corrected eventually (As we are successful to date) but it can make for some intense weeks until we can find the support we need. Also, because we move so fast, we sometimes do not have the supporting process and procedures to deal with our new size. We could be better at laying the road ahead of us to smooth those transitions.