Northstar Analytics

They called it 'high ownership.' It was just unpaid management.

I was hired as a senior IC. Within four months I was running two pods, writing the roadmap, doing the 1:1s, and still expected to ship like I had no calendar. When I asked for the title that matched the work, they said titles were a 'distraction from impact.' The last straw was a Friday all-hands where leadership celebrated a record quarter and then announced a hiring freeze in the same breath. I wrote my resignation on Sunday with the same care I used to write their strategy docs. I left the badge on the kitchen counter of a WeWork I had never chosen.