- The dysfunctional leadership were all friends and colleagues at a previous company they worked together. Reading the previous company's reviews on glassdoor, it seems like a pattern. - Poor management of finances, up to a point where it was criminal negligence. They were more than willing to spend money on party buses and lavish dinners, yet they were not willing to spend a dime on employee essentials. Laptops for example. - Similar to the above point, the leadership were quick to spend investor money on issues that doesn't even matter. Often times at off-sites, you would be interrupted DURING WORK DISCUSSION by a person from upper management about what to have for dinner. That being said, they were collecting large paychecks for their titles but in reality they were nothing more than a glorified ubereats. - leadership consisted of people that were too young, and had no experience in delivering anything in their past companies. This would have NOT happened in other sane teams. To put it into perspective, the experience that they have would have been at most a junior level at any other company. Unsurprisingly, the individuals that had bloated titles were friends. - Senior leadership had no idea what they wanted, roadmaps changed every because some person found something they like online. - Nepotism at the center of the company culture. Firings, hirings were based on friendships and certain political maneuvers. This was also a very common theme at the previous company that the upper management were in. - Culture of deception. The "nice leader" facade that the upper management had was indeed convincing. But became evident that they do this in order to have some sort of leverage against you in trying to appease the CEO. - Extreme lack of self awareness. The growth org would claim that it was a blameless culture, but this was not remotely the case. There was constant deflection of responsibilities and blame that went around every day.
