Recently bagged a remote job and I’m thankful for it. However, over the first 30 days, I’ve observed a few things that are a little odd to me. For additional context, it’s a US based company and I’m in Product Marketing and report to the CMO.

  1. There’s a daily standup call that requires us to fill in a sheet with our individual updates.

  2. There’s a document called “I’m Aligned” that also requires us to fill in what we did last week and what we plan to do this week. Btw, the priorities always change so this document is never really correct. This is vetted by the CEO, although we don’t directly report to him.

  3. There’s a Slack channel where we are to update what we did at the end of the day everyday. This is also vetted by the CEO and he leaves comments on each person’s updates (remember, we don’t report to him directly).

  4. There was no product training or onboarding where we were taught about the product or given a thorough walkthrough. We are expected to learn about what product and its landscape on our own. Which is fine. But we are also expected to start delivering assets from day 1 and it has been quite a challenge.

  5. The feedback from the VP of Product and CEO is often condescending and rude. The general vibe is that they think we (the PMM team) don’t know what we are saying about the product and that’s true because we are just 30 days into this job.

  6. Their Glassdoor reviews are bad. Most of these reviews talk about how the CEO doesn’t listen to anyone and is a micromanager.

Are these red flags red enough for me to start looking elsewhere? I like the role and pay, but it’s giving me anxiety already and I’m just one month into the job.

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