• The SVP of Product promotes an intense, top-down culture where pushback is not genuinely welcomed. Constructive disagreement is often interpreted as lack of alignment or capability.
• Product strategy prioritizes short-term revenue and output volume over quality, long-term sustainability, and thoughtful execution.
• Expectations around workload are excessive. Teams are implicitly encouraged to operate at near “996” levels of availability and output, without compensation or support that reflects those demands.
• Compensation does not align with the intensity of expectations. For many roles, pay feels disconnected from workload and responsibility.
• HR does not function as an employee advocate. In challenging situations, the priority appears to be risk management for leadership rather than people support.
• Employees are dismissed abruptly, regardless of tenure, without the opportunity to say goodbye. Departures are not communicated internally, creating a culture of fear and instability.
• Morale is critically low. In conversations across teams, many employees are actively seeking to leave. Those who remain often show signs of burnout and disengagement.