- People are quitting left and right
- Moving to a forced hybrid model
- Shifting towards foreign labor
- Product team culture is rigid, dismissive, and purposefully not collaborative
- Whatever product you work on will not be allowed to significantly improve due to blocks from Product higher ups who don't know how to actually ship product
- Leveling up is pretty much impossible in Design
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Procore is having some major culture and priority shifts, putting a lot of pressure on employees to do more with less + a lot of impossible asks, at least over in design, product, and engineering.
My main day-to-day problem: asking questions, working towards constructive criticism, and advocating for differing opinions on direction of product are discouraged at best or punished at worst, even when it's our literal job to do just those things.
The design team is having a major identity crisis and a LOT of new positions are moving to India and Cairo. I don't think keeping our remote, distributed team is part of Procore's vision. In general, I don't feel like our jobs are safe, which is a bummer because Procore used to feel really stable. People here usually have years of tenure because they liked it here and it's safe, but people are quitting with nothing lined up now because the environment has become pretty toxic/the writing is on the wall.
Higher ups are forcing a new hybrid model that predictably leaves no room for remote work in the future. After four years, we're being told some things just "can't be done from home" which is why we're being forced to return to the office. This is directly in opposition to their actions of huge hiring jumps in India yet still expecting US teams to be able to work on the exact same product as a person on the other side of the world. They're just lying to us.
Morale is so bad and I don't see it getting better. They're wringing us for all we're worth because they know the market is so bad people can't/won't leave.
