Starting out at Pointe, it seemed like a special place to work. Individuals there really pride themselves on their boutique culture, and the company has a great sales pitch at first. However, it's the most successful gaslighting of all time, and people really drink the cool aid. They'll tell you there's no turnover, but in my years at other firms, I've never seen as much as there was at Pointe. They'll tell you they care about your professional development, but really they just dangle this carrot of promotion and raises while they give you as much work as possible until they've burned you out. They'll tell you they have a great culture to offset work life balance issues, but there's so much general ignorance and insensitivity across the board (racial, sexual, etc.). And the work life balance issues are bad. Pointe practices and even jokes about pretty significant labor exploitation for employees with most working until 8 or 9 PM most nights. Execs at the firm will flippantly tell you that you can't make more money elsewhere and joke about enjoying the generally low work life balance because it means they're seeing more money. Since departing, I've reconnected with at least 3 other former employees who had similar exit interviews as mine, where Karl or Stuart have ridiculed our decisions to leave and dismissed the fact that we got higher offers elsewhere by insisting the growth potential is worse. I saw a meaningful bump in salary, but I would take less money to work somewhere else. None of the employees will say this to the new guy, but I don't know more than maybe 4 people at Pointe who truly stand by the culture outside of senior leadership, and I'd have serious concerns about the firm's longevity if I still worked there. Lastly, the backstabbing and gossip is severe. On multiple occasions, I had information that I thought was shared in confidence or interactions that I thought would stay between my manager and me thrown in my face by other leaders. It creates this culture of hypervigilance and compounds the already high stress of the remainder of the job. As much as I am appreciative for any role that I am offered, I'd encourage you not to apply for one with Pointe. For most, I think it would be detrimental to one's mental health and an extremely toxic experience.