The culture is all-encompassing. You either adapt to it, or you don’t fit.
Feedback is constant, from anyone and everywhere. Sometimes constructive, sometimes simply to keep the system running.
Frequent shifts in priorities make it hard to maintain long-term focus. You often find yourself working on something entirely different from what you originally joined for, while the impact on your actually work will be penalised.
Even those who are resilient and comfortable in fast-paced environments can hit limits here. There is a structural pressure embedded in the system that goes beyond “intense.”
It is striking how many people explicitly take time to reset, reflect or reassess after leaving. That says something.
