Chaos. Know-it-all, arrogant, micromanaging, self-absorbed CEO, surrounded by mostly "If you can't beat'm, join'm" characters in the leadership team.
Company basically bullies good, ambitious, smart young people into working as many hours as possible over and above their contracted hours (unpaid) to get every bit of value out of obviously understaffed teams (the CEO's repeatedly stated reasoning being that salaries are better than the competition and that he is graciously giving employees shares in his unicorn of a business).
Countless people burn out and leave or get fired for "not being good enough", while some stay and try to prove they deserve to join the inner circle, get promoted and hang in for dear life, suffering countless indignities (like direct insults on conference calls from the CEO), in hope of getting their shares, one day.
Leadership is solely interested in short-term gain and accelerated growth to take advantage of current M&A market conditions and investor appetite for the UK fibre space. It's evident by the complete lack of interest in setting up good foundations for systems and operations and wanting to run everything on a shoe string for as long as possible, knowing full well it's not sustainable and that it does not set the organisation up for long-term operational sustainability. The mode of operation at Netomnia is going from one fire to the next fire, to the next after that and so on. Wherever burns hottest, gets leadership attention and everything is slowly but surely igniting as time passes. It is fascinating from the outside looking in, but quite hellish from within.
