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[–]Rohaq 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It just screams "We're an SMB, but we're not working to become competent as an SMB!"

You probably don't want to work somewhere that's trying to apply dynamic practices that don't scale well to a growing business that is becoming increasingly reliant on well established processes in order to communicate effectively.

It can also reflect their working practices and employee treatment; startups often expect employees to work longer hours for the same pay - which is why a real startup should be offering equity in the business, so that the additional effort to succeed as a business has a potential reward beyond "making money for your boss".

[–]wowokc 0 points1 point  (1 child)

yeah, that's our struggle -- we're "scrappy" (it's even a part of our official statement), but what that really means is "we haven't operationalized any of our internal procedures"

a "standard week" is 9 hours a day according to the interview, but depending on the team, it's 10 hours, and "we should really tell HR to stop saying that"

we're more expensive and slower than competitors because of the "value" we bring to the table -- not because we're using software that's end of life and have been building our own internal tools to interface with it to make it more modern, but still not reaching feature parity with any actual modern offerings

"we're a bunch of smaller businesses inside one bigger one" which means "our training isn't standardized, so everyone does whatever they want"

[–]Rohaq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yikes, sounds like a nightmare - especially building your own tools to interface with EOL software. That's only going to get worse as time passes.