SF culture favors personal connections over performance, with promotions often going to well-connected individuals with stronger personal connections to leaders despite limited or no performance, capable employees are overlooked under the pretext of needing more “leadership skills. Typical pattern repeats every year.
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@OP Frankly, the conduct of the senior directors is damaging. They often appear more like admirers of the VP than leaders, while showing little regard for their staff. Their conflicts spill over into the teams, with employees used as pawns in their disputes. The tone is harsh cutoff in meetings, ignoring contributions, or use silence as a tactic, excessive praise for some they like and cold nothing for others. those who remain neutral are assumed as lacking presence or leadership and overlooked. Great firm but with some bad actors.
@OP Turf wars are normal occurrences
@OP most of the leader are on a power trip, being rude to subordinates is common place. Gaslighting is common. Spineless, defeated men.
@4nd Overloaded to no recognition to burnout to exit, often used track for some of the tenured folks.
You work 20 hours a day, even on weekends, actually moving mountains. Yet management recognizes and promotes those with no performance but better connections. Their excuse? ‘We don’t know what you do.’ That’s a poor excuse—especially when you’ve already told them. Not the right place for talent.
@OP, yes connections outweigh performance and deserving talent sidelined, silent burnout grows.
Its was the same way in the EO&T (IT)
@OP Yup
@b4 🔥