When I was writing this out there were more things than I initially thought, but here goes: - I understand the pressure that leadership is under. They serve two masters: we need to fulfill our mission and keep our customers safe, but also continue to grow as fast as we can, and while our customers and Wall Street frequently overlap in what they want and need, sometimes those goals don't always align. Depending on who you ask, there are a lot of focus areas and a ton of priorities. 5 year plans. Speeches at quarterly All hands. Corporate and team goals, and it gets dizzying. The message is often unclear. - I haven't been here forever, but while CrowdStrike has a ton of great people, it's filled with more than its fair share of "rest and vest" pre-IPO veterans who like to sit and complain about the good ol' days, even though they don't seem to produce much at all. - To the point above, while I haven't been here forever, in the years I've been here what I have seen is a leadership pullback. As the company's grown, there have been more unannounced re-orgs, execs leaving, and this and that happening with little or reactive communication, which leaves everyone wondering what's up and looking over their shoulder. Corporate comms needs to be re-done with a much clearer focus on transparency. - There is little to no training for managers, and managers aren't evaluated at all on how good they actually are as managers, so it's kind of a roll of the dice in terms of how effective your manager is and how they'll advocate for you. - Related to the above, I cannot explain to you how and why some people get promoted and others don't. There is no track or defined process, so it's very much up in the air behind a secretive and often delayed annual merit cycle. A lot of people were frustrated this year. - Speaking of, merit raises haven't been great lately. If I end up leaving, that will be why. Please give your top performers an incentive to stay! - There's no educational reimbursement at all. - 401k is embarrassingly bad for a company of our size with the revenue we generate.
