Some people can't separate their work and personal lives, and feel that any open discussion or constructive feedback is a personal attack. Business wide, and even team wide discussion on product development, or fixing existing problems with the platform is actively discouraged, and everyone is told to file their ideas away in a place nobody looks.This means there's a lack of innovation, problem solving, productive and inclusive decision making, general product and business development, communication and teamwork across the business.
The culture is confused. It feels like nobody knows what Hive's core values are, or what the culture is supposed to be. It doesn't seem to matter to the SLT.
The SLT lack diversity, physically and mentally. They say that they are committed to improving the diversity across the business, but their actions regularly contradict this in many ways. They don't have much awareness of how teams work and what people actually do on a daily business, and have little to no understanding of the product. Yet they push things through and flip decisions without having any understanding of the impacts of those decisions, or any consideration for the strain they're putting on both the platform and employees. There's a lack of direction from them, probably due to a lack of valuable insight and relevant experience from most of them. They also take criticism or constructive feedback very badly, and anything which isn't 100% positive is either shut down or ignored. They have complained about negative feedback and discouraged people from sharing their opinions or questions. Their focus is to make hive look good on the outside so they can sell it, they don't really care about making a good product, improving peoples lives or looking after their employees.
There aren't any real benefits to working at Hive. You get a few days of extra holiday, but not much else that can really be considered a 'benefit' of working there. They don't pay well either, and employee's aren't likely to get a pay rise unless they ask for one or threaten to leave.