I’m still pretty angry, honestly. Looking back on all the BS we’ve been expected to tolerate over the years, shame on me for believing accountability would ever exist at the top.
Remember the data breach? The ELT lied to investors, employees, and regulators. The company spent hundreds of millions in legal fees and hundreds of millions more trying to clean up the mess and get compliant. Did anyone at that level lose their job? Of course not. They still got their bonuses.
Then there was EverFi, a $750M acquisition that eventually turned into roughly a $400M write-down when it was sold off. Another catastrophic decision. Again, nobody in leadership paid any personal price for the failure.
Now we’re watching good people lose their jobs while roles get shifted to India, all while leadership positions themselves for one last payday if the company gets sold. They’ll walk away with tens of millions in compensation after years of bad decisions. The rest of us get 8 weeks severance and COBRA.
At some point you realize employees are just pawns in a game where leadership can fail upward indefinitely while everyone else absorbs the consequences.
Get out while you can.