
As humans, we tend to enjoy each other's company.
My base compensation - which is below the market but still the better part of my package
With no backfills, our team is getting stretched incredibly thin and we have no coverage when folks want to take vacations. We are also tasked with an incredible amount of manual work which is time-intensive and error-prone.
Accountability and visibility. I have been at a variety of meetings where the slido questions are continually addressed at the surface level when it is clear that the team is just looking for someone to acknowledge that right now is a tough time given the benefit cuts, stock price, and attrition.
No-fault is on the individual but as a team, we need to improve on our ability to do annual planning. Like engineering, we should also be building our roadmaps, creating groups to accomplish tasks and revisiting this throughout the year to see if we were effective. We are very reactionary here.