This place is extremely chaotic and it's easy to get burned out. I know I have, and I've seen many others too. I think performance reviews (at least since I joined in 2018) have provided somewhat perverse incentives to just work towards #metrics sometimes with little regard to whether these actually help anyone. God forbid you want to do something good for users (internally or externally) but you can't get metrics because it's in a very greenfield space. Also layoffs have been rattling Leadership: I felt fairly confident in leadership for the most part even during the early days of COVID up until this year. It feels like things have gotten progressively less genuine and truthful re: layoffs etc. Layoffs: extremely rattling not the least because even for survivors, it's basically the same company with the same priorities and focus areas as before but with fewer people staffed in those areas. Double whammy of, getting overworked AND feeling like layoffs could happen again since we haven't made any fundamental changes to how we do business. "Increased intensity"??? Come on now, you KNOW everyone already had impostor syndrome before and felt overworked. Now you're telling us we haven't worked enough or efficiently enough? Gimme a break. The only people who actually will celebrate VPs calling us coasters and stuff are those with an inflated ego, usually not matched by their actual value. Everyone else is going to feel even more I everyone else is always working harder and is more talented and you're going to have even MORE burnout.
