Talented people are leaving. Quickly. The quality of new hires is decreasing, because it's hard to keep up with the volume of leavers. This is especially harmful for a software company, because product knowledge and understanding legacy code is important. This creates bus risk.
Good people were fired due to disagreements with people on the leadership team. How can you expect employees to trust the people at the top when they're firing the managers the employees trust, with no transparency? And to top it off, drastically under-qualified people have been brought on board with just as little transparency input from outsiders of the leadership team. The "value" these new leaders are adding is just more process, and then of course more meetings to talk about these ever-changing new processes. It's tiresome.
The perks are nice, and the pay seems to be (a little bit under, but close to) inline with what other tech companies in Barcelona pay. However, Typeform is trying to compete globally. This means competing with engineering teams across Europe, North America, etc., which pay a lot higher. To attract more top talent, you have to pay top dollar. Right now, developers can look to other companies in Europe, or even remote positions and nearly double their salaries (more in some cases).
Top-down management. Several times all teams were told to drop everything they were doing and focus on another initiative. This has created a tremendous maintenance monster that a few unlucky teams end up in charge of maintaining. Arbitrary, tight deadlines without scoping input from people who will actually be doing the work has led to some questionable quality of work and decreased morale.
