Good mission with defunct leadership in “survival” mode
Pros
- You won’t find many companies with a better mission, everyone believes what we’re doing matters - Peers will be a driving factor of keeping you happy in the company. Some amazing and hardworking people, especially those who can successfully make it past their first year or two.
Cons
- extremely high turn over of not just senior leadership, but also within teams. - brilliant a**holes running rampant amidst layoffs - leaders letting a lot of folks “sandbag” because the current state of the company is so bad that it benefits from even the smallest contributions of employees (even if it’s not their best effort - gaps are all over the place between senior leadership and associates. Those gaps are only being filled by people taking on more work, because the company is struggling to hire backfills due to financial constraints - the current attitude in the company is “survival” - no matching 401k - Elon’s behavior, tweets, and “celebrity” directly often impacts your equity I.E. income - leadership has almost no understanding of how to articulate, plan, and execute against key business priorities.