No leadership, no future - Senior Software Engineer Redbubble Employee Review

We used to have a "fully stocked" kitchen. Very supportive "Redbubble family", but scratch under the surface and realize this is just a (face) mask. The hard truth is that this is a struggling publicly listed company, so the real family are the investors, you're a cost line item. You can get promoted and make a career even when your performance is poor, you get extra points for making decisions that will waste months of engineering work, or create a culture where everyone feels entitled to have an opinion on the decisions of all the other teams. An exciting career: you will never know if your job is truly safe, the company could be profitable for the first time in its 10+ years of existence, your manager could be happy with your work, you could even have been recently promoted, and still be made redundant in the middle of the Covid crisis.