Pros
* Some brilliant people work here. * The product has real potential. * You can learn a lot quickly because you are thrown into the deep end. * Good place to build resilience, if nothing else.
Cons
* Leadership expects small teams to perform like fully staffed departments. * Teams are under-resourced, then blamed for not delivering impossible expectations. * Public criticism is normalised. * Employees are talked down to in group settings. * Feedback often comes too late, too vaguely, or only when leadership is already unhappy. * Performance management can feel unfair, sudden, and disconnected from actual ownership. * Expertise is hired, then ignored. * Decisions are often made by people who do not understand the function they are overruling. * “Ownership” often means being handed responsibility without authority. * Raising concerns can make you look like the problem. * There is very little psychological safety. * Turnover is high because the culture burns people out. * The company treats chaos as ambition.