- The company has undergone a dramatic cultural shift, and not for the better. What was once a merit based environment has curdled into something that rewards proximity to the right people over results
- A wave of long-tenured employees have exited, taking irreplaceable knowledge with them. A predictable result of leadership decisions
- Strategy changes constantly. Teams are asked to pivot, then pivot again with little accountability when it doesn't work
- Revenue and marketing leadership have turned over repeatedly. Each new hire resets everything, imports their own network and runs the same tired playbook
- Speaking of importing networks: if you've worked at Zoom, you may already have a job offer waiting. Hiring seems increasingly concentrated around one leader's personal connections. When somewhere close to half the sales org attrits in a single year, something is deeply wrong
- The tone from the top is reactive and the whiplash is exhausting
- "Shadow hiring" documented in prior reviews is real