1. Growth opportunities were promised but never delivered. Leadership will make you feel like advancement is coming to keep you around longer than you should stay.
2. Leadership takes resignations personally, which feels tone-deaf considering the number of layoffs the company has carried out.
3. Basic office necessities were non-existent — no snacks, no water, no birthday recognition, and no cleaning service for the in-office space.
4. The company juggles too many projects at once, spreading resources too thin for any of them to actually succeed.
5. Expectations are set unrealistically high and you are expected to meet them regardless — fall short and you will hear about it from leadership.
6. Pay is wildly inconsistent. People in the same role with the same experience level can have drastically different salaries with no clear explanation.
7. Employees removed from their departments for poor performance were not let go — they were given vague, made-up roles to keep them on because of their relationships with leadership.
8. All travel expenses come out of your own pocket upfront and the reimbursement process is painfully slow, meaning you are quietly paying interest on work expenses.
9. Weekend work travel is expected with zero additional compensation or PTO. The company seems to think the chance to travel should be enough.
10. Hiring decisions often appeared to be based on who you know rather than what you bring to the table.
11. Inappropriate comments about younger employees were made and went unaddressed, which was a ongoing cultural red flag.
12. HR was consistently misleading and difficult to trust. Basic office policies were also selectively enforced.
13. Turnaround times on projects were extremely tight on a daily basis, leaving little room to do quality work.
14. Very late night meetings were common and treated as normal, with little regard for work-life balance.
15. Departments constantly overstepped and interfered with each other's work, making it hard to get anything done without unsolicited input.
16. Leadership drama was constant and impossible to ignore. Getting anything accomplished felt like navigating a tug-of-war because everything was taken personally at the top.
17. Creative direction lacked vision and taste, which made it difficult to produce work that felt competitive or inspired.
18. The job description does not reflect the actual role. You will take on more and more responsibility and still not get promoted.
19. Growth roadmaps are presented to make you feel like there is a future here, but they are not real. They exist to keep you complacent until you eventually leave.
20. Excelling at office politics and knowing the right people will take you further here than actual skill or hard work ever will. AKA office jargan.
21. Workload is extremely unbalanced. You can be completely overwhelmed while a colleague with nothing to do — and everyone knows they have nothing to do — is making more money and working remotely from another state.
22. Boundaries are applied inconsistently. Some employees are pushed to take on extra work constantly while others can decline tasks, go silent in meetings, and disengage entirely with no consequences.
23. There is essentially no real path to growth here regardless of your performance or dedication.
24. Layoffs repeatedly took out strong, hard-working employees while those who underperformed but had the right friendships with leadership kept their jobs.
25. The ship is skining.