- Ram looks to blame everyone for business mistakes. He removed a lot of management and refused to replace them leading to teams not having clear direction or goals. He also gaslighted employees by making requests for projects and then denying he requested them in the first place once they were completed.
- Ram also took on the role of CEO, CMO, and CFO for a time all at once. it led to a lot of confusion for teams and company objectives.
- Transparency was lacking. Teams feel like they have a sword over their heads while working and because they don't have a clear picture of why they are working on a project, pieces that would improve user experience are missed.
- When investors became wary of the number of lawsuits and spend on the legal team, they closed their wallets. Ram used this as an opportunity to fire half of the Marketing team and required the team to keep up the same level of work. Long hours were spent to complete high priority projects but none of it was recognized by the leadership team.
-Fear was a motivation tool used by the leadership team. It made the work environment extremely stressful and unproductive. Fearing for you job when a calendar invite drops on your computer is the worst feeling.
-For the COVID-19 layoffs, they announced companywide layoffs and then said they will slack you 1 by 1 if you are going to be laid off. From 9:30am-3pm the company said with fear that they would be laid off. That is a tremendous amount of unnecessary anxiety and stress placed on a person.
- We were constantly told that we were lucky to have anything the company gave us: compensation, office space, WFH policy. In this area it's not hard to go elsewhere (pre-pandmenic) so treating us like ungrateful children instead of professionals always rubbed me the wrong way.
-As I mentioned before, with Leadership constantly letting managers go, it was hard to grow professionally or understand where you could improve your career. That missed opportunity made this feel like a dead end job.
