-Lack of competent leadership throughout the organisation. Most managers are inexperienced and clueless about their day to day responsibilities. CEO lacks vision and drive. Quite arrogant without hard work or credentials.
-Lack of meritocracy. Be prepared to prostrate regularly to management if you want to survive long term.
-Lack of transparency. Worse still, management employs lies and misinformation ironically.
-Lack of collaborative environment. If you don’t suck up to already existing cliques, you will not be given impactful work and thrown into the deep end to do a lot of grunt work.
-Extremely low quality standards. For example, I was pulled into a six month project to deliver a report 8 weeks ahead of the deadline. During the writing of the report, there was virtually zero support from manager or colleagues who interacted with the client and agreed on deliverables. When I mentioned being concerned about not being able to meet client expectations with existing data, I was asked to cut copy paste from previous work without worrying about data, experimental method or ethics. Once I finished the report working weekends though, everyone became an armchair expert at it. Even colleagues with zero background in AI or NLP or Data Science or computational linguistics. Managers are least concerned about such quality issues. If you point these out and ask for better processes, you will become the public enemy.
-Lack of interdisciplinary approach when it comes to problem solving. More focus on buzzwords than understanding the problem domain.
-Many individuals with underhanded behaviours and engaging in energy sucking from others without doing the hard work themselves. During my time there, I saw quite a few talented workers being pushed out on the basis of lies and manipulations and I too eventually experienced the same.
-Remuneration behind the market standard
