Pros
I guess the pandemic and Zoom culture allows you to see how ridiculous some of the multimillion dollar homes are of the senior most executives in LA + Hamptons? Knowing that they’re rolling in ridiculous stock options and seeing those spoils is a helpful refresher as to why they’re brutalizing you everyday to deliver more subscribers.
Cons
Too many to comprehensively name, but will cite a few. Zero transparency when it comes to results and ongoing ambiguity as to what goals we need to hit. Completely frenetic top down management of the business where senior execs constantly panic about subscriber growth on a day over day basis and everyone beneath them has to deal with their daily fire drills that, ironically, derail actual progress towards meaningful growth. No empowerment of bottoms up ideas. Senior execs of DMED (the parent division of The Walt Disney Company that encompasses streaming) have absolutely no digital marketing or streaming experience, and it shows. Nasty politics between teams. Many leaders lack an ounce of charisma and instead manage through inducing anxiety.