Overly Stressful and Unrewarding
Pros
Good pay. Smart, collaborative coworkers.
Cons
Constant top-down revenue pressure, including disincentives, which impacts culture across teams. Due to layoffs and attrition, there is essentially no layers between lower and upper management. This has caused a widespread lack of transparency regarding org decisions, hasty and poorly-planned product launches, and minimal decision-power allowed to lower management & ICs. Unreasonable hours and expectations from managers (even for Tech), who neither protect their reports' time nor their own. Unclear and under-prepared performance review process. Consistently receding benefits, including office conveniences, team perks, and travel budgets. Layoffs across product, engineering, analyst, and other key XFN teams left gaps that can only be filled by picking up the workload or dropping initiatives altogether. Enjoyment comes only when work-life balance is favorable, which is not often.
