Pros
You have a job, but at what costs?
Cons
There’s an exhausting undercurrent here — a culture where backstabbing and quiet badmouthing thrive behind the same smiles and praise people offer publicly on Slack. It leaves everyone anxious, guarded, and second-guessing trust. Genuine initiative is discouraged; what gets rewarded instead is performative deference to managers and a willingness to stay small — asking for guidance on the most basic tasks, keeping your head down, and doing just enough not to be noticed. It’s what happens when you put a retail salesman in charge of a tech company: he’ll run it like a corner shop, focused on appearances and flattery instead of real growth. And in the end, businesses like that don’t scale — they either collapse or get absorbed by someone bigger who knows what they’re doing.