Extremely terrible work/life balance. While discussing the topic of burn out, the team was encouraged to "keep going and do what you do because there is a lot to do" without a show of care for employee mental health or life outside of work. Managers and their direct reports discuss nothing but work amongst each other, and the concept of caring for the people is non-existent. It's amazing how long many have worked together and still hardly know a thing about each other.
Resources are lacking. It's surprising Skydio has made it this far without a basic order operations organization, or much to focus on organization in general. A lot of reports are still put into google sheets, and additional workload is continued to be added without putting capacity into consideration. Post-sales teams are struggling the most here as focus has been heavily on revenue and not on after sales resources. There's an expectation for salaried workers to do 50-60 hour weeks, while non-salaried teams struggle in burn out through normal working hours and are consistently requested to work overtime.
There are a lot of unnecessary meetings during working hours that contribute to the lack of work/life balance as it does not give proper time outside of the work day to actually complete tasks. A good portion of these meetings can be done over slack or email to ensure next steps are documented rather than discussed and forgotten.
Skydio lacks completely with employee resource groups. With a small attempt to show women support once, diversity and support for it is completely forgotten and pushed aside. It's clear that it's not top of mind to make sure employees are comfortable and have the resources and groups to turn to when needed.
Career growth is also not top of mind when working with certain leaders. They do not invest in their employee growth or discuss where/what their employees would eventually want to work towards. Support for employee growth through shadowing and projects or any type of personal development is lacking.
