
Coworkers are genuinely nice people. Leadership and management are untrustworthy and give a lot of lip service.
Spend more time understanding the issues of ICs who are doing the work day in and day out.
Take a pause and look at the feedback. Every year the same issues show up in the refine our recipe survey but it's never solved.
Toast was already a lower paying tech company but over the years stock based compensation dwindled (no auto refreshers like big tech), promotions harder to come by.