Pros
Remote working, talented individuals, collaborative team culture, lots of innovation (at the beginning), always learning budget (at the beginning - once his other business went down the gutter and budget became an issue - apparently you should just 'read free online articles or go to a public library and read a book' - quote from the owner of the company.)
Cons
Missed opportunities when the vision was crystal clear to be executed on. Everyone was on board to deliver better learning experience for health care workers and perhaps different industries in the future. Instead of focusing on this, there was just wasted effort in tip toeing around key decisions. There was too many people in leadership group which all had their own opinions on random things or just there to have their egos massaged. It was a perpetual feeling of no decisions were ever made, once in a blue moon when they were made, it was too late and confusing for everyone. Weekly town halls would be filled with questions with non-answers, but they would be happy to randomly pick people from the chat list to describe their joy moments, even when half of their colleagues were laid off, read the room, what a terrible way to start a town hall. The first wave of lay offs were at leadership level, fair enough, made sense due to salaries. Everyone were reassured jobs were safe as there was plenty of run way, 'because budget are set start of the year', I am still hearing people are being laid off at a rapid rate. It makes me sick to my stomach at how badly this has been mismanaged. The education team are bringing in most of the revenue from assessments, probably the least paid out of all the different verticals of the business, they deserve more as they work so hard to keep the business going. The latest that I had heard was, in a recent town hall from existing employees that, the lay offs are difficult for the managing director. 'it's easy for them to get a new job these days'. The guy is playing the victim while putting more people out of jobs. I can only imagine what types of goals he has to 'sort out' the business, what underlying big bonus that we do not know about. The owner of the business treat this as a vanity side project of theirs, would attempt to reassure everyone post lay offs with a speech of pure lunacy and would straight up insult staff as if they are beneath them. They are so out of touch and in this business for the wrong reasons. They are not here to help people at all as much as they think they are. They are looking to squeeze as much out of healthcare workers as possible and maximising their dividends to continue living in the tax haven Gibraltar, sipping cocktails on their yachts.