- Top level employees are good at running the front-end of the company, they are not good at managing people on the back-end of the company
- Bro Culture at its worst; men outnumber women about 8:1
- Upper management receives significantly more vacation than regular staff; while staff has to choose between using their 15 days of PTO for when they're sick or to go on vacation, upper management flaunts their 2 week annual pilgrimage to Burning Man or Disney, in addition to the 2 weeks they (exclusively) receive at Xmas. While this may seem trivial, it creates deep-rooted animosity between the C-levels and the staff
- Pay is not standardized, if Person A starts a Staff 1 job in Year 2010 at $32K, person B might begin a Staff 1 job in Year 2013 at $35K while Person A has not received a raise since their start date
- Pay is not related to performance; while the website has consistently made profits month over month steadily gaining at 10-15%, raises were frozen for years at a time (for staff, not for upper management who did receive raises throughout supposed "freeze" on "all raises")
- Performance reviews are considered "too corporate" you're just supposed to ask your boss how you're doing, unless, of course, your boss is making use of her excessive vacation/working from home nearly everyday
- No upward mobility, while bigger roles are made up to promote upper management (Chief People Officer?? Chief Revenue Officer??), low-level staff is repeatedly told that the company is too small to create growth paths even though the company is 17 years-old and employs more than 75 people
