Corporate Culture

I’m doing my English homework on corporate culture and trying to do an in-depth retrospective of my experience. I’ve been thinking a lot about corporate culture these last few days, especially yesterday’s news of the firing of OpenAI’s CEO, which seems like bullshit from a board strategy perspective.

In my work experience, I have seen different examples of culture: from the mossy culture of a small financial company in Perm to the Central Bank with a unique combination of brilliant young minds and the insane limitations of the system. I don’t have much to say about commercial banks, except that they were just boring, and the decision to go to startups at that stage turned out to be the only right one.

Startups have pros and cons, such as freedom, speed of decision-making, the ineffectiveness of visionaries in leadership, and layoffs one day. I truly believe that if you choose a startup, you choose a pig in a poke.

Imagine finding a job and realizing the company culture doesn’t suit you. I’ve heard that you can influence culture, but I haven’t seen a case where it would work. More often than not, people either adapt to the culture or leave. Only now have I fully begun to understand this common phrase that the probationary period works both ways.