Was great with solid growth both as a company and individually, but rapidly fell over past 6-9 months. Leaders seem to be positioning for exit strategy instead of healthy workforce and business future. Many of the best of us have left or been pushed out by toxic managers.

It used to be the best company I'd ever worked for. In less than a year, leadership shifts and complete chaos around direction has led to groups of leaders agreeing about timelines and expectations without ever taking time to learn how/what can be executed, then pushing their teams to the edge.

It has imploded over the past year, and despite many opportunities to fix it, leadership seems to be intent on digging the hole deeper and deeper at every step. From morale to goal setting to financial moves, everything seems like it's in shambles.

Everyone gives their all so we can keep meeting demands, and there is trust within my team.

Despite senior leadership’s failures, those at the working level constantly strive to alleviate stress and improve working

Transparency is lacking & pay bands misalign with actual comp. Some seniors are paid less than juniors with same titles.

Nearly everyone outside of MLT is extremely hardworking, smart, and dedicated to both our collective goals and opportunities to optimize our processes.

I found out a coworker with the same title was making over 50% more than me, and was not given any explanation why.

Everyone is dedicated and doing the best they can. Most are honest about the common and shared struggles we face with unstable and directionless leadership.

I'm underpaid relative to my colleagues and industry standards. I've brought this up multiple times to different leaders, with no solution. The best I've gotten was an instruction to "not focus on compensation".

Be real, be honest, be forthcoming, be consistent. We're all currently sprinting towards untenable deadlines with half-baked-at-best plans and diminishing support. ICs are leaving, green leaders are replacing them with big ideas but no grounding in reality.

Coworkers across teams are honest about concerns and struggles experienced with company direction and leadership. Camaraderie created by shared frustrations is strong. Nearly everyone really wants to do good work and aims to improve the company any time they can.

The comp structure for my role is illogical relative to both other positions within the organization and the broader market. I've been directly lied to about pay bands and told to stop asking questions to understand how the logic was reached.

Stop the lack of transparency with no good-faith effort to hear concerns or suggestions related to either business improvement or employee satisfaction. Don't hide behind middle management and ignore problems, while demanding changes but not asking questions or being willing to answer any.

1. Fix comp. 2. Stop creating an environment where good people leave due to bad managers and bad pay. 3. Think through growth pacing. Stop claiming there's some higher power "structure" or "process" preventing reasonable treatment of employees. C suite can't keep pretending they're powerless to HR.

Stop hiring outside leaders instead of promoting. The only promotions that have happened within marketing for the past 2 years were adding "senior" in front of titles & one Director-to-VP who was subsequently demoted back to Director. (Effectively boxing out the only Black woman leader we've had.)

Diversity at the top is no longer a nice-to-have. It's required, demanded both internally and by customers. Pay inequality is rampant, fix it. We've lost many great ICs & replaced them instead with VPs who do more talking than working. They're assigning work with no one left to execute.

Managers with good relationships with execs get to run large teams around their interests, regardless of what's best for business, while other teams go badly under-resourced and have no one to advocate for the help they need. If you're not a manager now, there don't seem to be growth options here.