- Extremely high work pressure
- Invisible and incapable senior management
- High resistance to change ("we always did it like this" mentality)
- Unsafe workplace and harassment are part of the routine
- Many ad hoc processes and tasks get pushed on to employees without proper reasoning or usage
- Career development and path highly depends on your manager
- Low base salary
- Friendship politics (promotions come if you know the right people)
- Unclear roles and responsibilities within teams and even higher up
- A culture of complaining and negativity
- Staff in management/lead positions without having the right soft skills
- 0 top down decision making - which can cause chaos below in certain situation