The engineering teams at Theranos faced several challenges due to the high-pressure work environment. Firstly, the CEO's demand to run the teams twenty hours and seven days a week led to excessive stress and overburdening of the team. Secondly, the formation of a parallel engineering team to compete with the existing team created an atmosphere of competition and tension, which could have led to decreased morale and productivity.

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As months went by, Elizabeth grew frustrated with the slow pace and wanted to run the engineering teams twenty hours and seven days a week. Ed felt this would overburden his already stressed team and refused to comply. Over the next few months, he saw new engineers being hired who did not report to him. A parallel engineering team was being formed to make both teams compete with each other.

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Bad Blood

Learn why and how a $9 billion dollar company vanished in a few weeks. The story of Theranos is the Silicon Valley equivalent of the Enron scandal rep...

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