Pros
- Management is planning to rid itself of the company and sell it within the next two years, so you may eventually get to work under more competent leadership, if you're patient enough. - It's a great environment for those who enjoy following orders and never questioning decision-makers. - The pain from repeatedly banging your head against the desk will prepare you for a potential life with a brain tumor.
Cons
So you're contemplating a career at Greyfinch and are curious as to what is in store for you? Congrats! You've come to the right place. Among other things, you can expect: - an absurdly inept upper management team, comprised of trust-fund children and former salesmen, whose complete lack of vision, actionable goals, and leadership skills has led them to entrust nearly every aspect of product development to a single third-party contractor with a fetish for home-made inspirational videos and bad analogies. - a company culture where, in their words, "the product is more important than our people", and where constructive criticism of practices, tech choices, and strategies is treated personally, rejected absolutely, and retaliated against unconditionally. - a constantly changing environment, where all tech decisions, roadmaps, and recruitment is managed by individuals who have zero experience in any of those fields. - to be forced to use a frontend tool, created by the contractor, for all web development -- despite it not being used by any other team in the world, despite it being maintained by a grand total of 1 developer, and despite it being buggy, cumbersome, convoluted, and a dismal replacement for far more effective technologies like React or Angular. - to join the skeletal remains of what used to be a very talented, tight-knit team, whose members have long since gone -- either because they quit out of disgust at indifference of management towards its people and its blind entrustment of all decision-making to contractors with obvious conflicts of interest, or because they were terminated en-mass after raising objections to the above. (To be fair, losing the entire backend team responsible for supporting your core product was an impressive feat). I don't know what you will be entering into now at Greyfinch, but I can tell you that the company is nothing more than a thin veneer for the selfish ambitions of a single individual, whom would gladly sellout the entire team, including top management, in order to pursue the ambitions of his own company. Do not make the mistake of thinking you are actually working for Greyfinch. Do not assume that anyone will care about you or your contribution. Do not raise your hand or your voice. Do all of that, and maybe you'll last a few months.
