Where to begin?
Management will happily tell you you’re doing an amazing job right up until your review—when they suddenly "remember" all the mysterious things you apparently did wrong (none of which they ever mentioned before). They'll dangle a promotion in front of you like a carrot on a stick, promising timelines and dates that magically get pushed out or disappear. But don’t worry—if you threaten to quit, they’ll fast-track a promotion for you. Actually work hard and earn it the right way? Good luck with that.
The culture here rewards overworking and staying quiet about it. Do a great job and meet impossible deadlines? Congratulations—you just won yourself more work with no raise to match. The yearly "increase" barely covers inflation, assuming you even get that much.
Sales routinely sells projects that are impossible to deliver within scope or timeline—and guess who gets to clean up the mess? Not Sales. PMs are left scrambling to figure out how to deliver work that was sold without considering things like, you know, actual production hours.
And then there was the brilliant PTO policy change at the end of 2021. Suddenly, you could no longer carry over PTO into the next year—and they stopped paying it out when you left the company. The unofficial rumor? Too many people had banked PTO from being overworked and unable to actually take time off. Apparently, if enough of them quit at once and cashed out their earned time, it could have bankrupted the company. So rather than fix the overwork problem, they just made sure you’d never see that time—or the money—for it.
The CEO (Nick Soggu) seemed more interested in seeing people at their desks than keeping anyone safe. During COVID, employees were dragged back into the office and HR was told to stop alerting people about positive cases—because apparently health isn’t as important as looking busy. Oh, and if you need a conference room? Good luck. He’d take over the biggest one without warning, and the rest of us would scramble like fools to figure out where to hold client calls. Real inspiring leadership.