You should quit. Life is short. It's not worth wasting time at a place that makes you unhappy. And from the company's perspective, it's better to hire and onboa

You should quit. Life is short. It's not worth wasting time at a place that makes you unhappy. And from the company's perspective, it's better to hire and onboard someone who would be a better match sooner rather than later. You're not doing anyone any favors by staying. > I don't have faith in the leadership team- they don't know how to allocate or focus resources, don't know what a good metric is, hire senior people then don't let them do their jobs. I don't know you or the company or the founders so I have no idea if your assessment is reasonable or not, but either way I think it's a sign that you should look for a different job. One thing I've found is that everything flows down from the top at a startup - bad leadership begets bad management which begets bad execution. Based on what you've said I'm not very optimistic about the company, no matter how great the idea is. There are companies that survive bad leadership by being in phenomenally lucky. But if that were the case you wouldn't have said you have "some traction". You'd have said tthing are growing like crazy and most people would think you're crazy to want to leave. To look at things from a different angle suppose your perception of the founders is way off - imagine they're totally reasonable and smart and great, but for whatever reason you're crazy and you don't see it. In that case you should still probably look for another job. Put yourself in their shoes: would you want a critical early stage employee who sees you as an incompetent klutz? If you think you might want to stay and you think the leadership would be open to it then it would be great if you mentioned some of your concerns to them. Of course doing so might make it more awkward if you then quit a few weeks later. Overall, I think your best bet would be to find something else and leave on good terms. A year isn't a crazy short amount of time to be at a startup these days (it's not like you're quitting after a few weeks). Jobs - especially early stage jobs - are like relationships. Sometimes it doesn't work out, not through any particular fault of either party, it's just not a good fit. People will understand.