Pros
- Nice colleagues including higher management, even CEO - Good onboarding - Some very smart people in wider team - lots of knowledge to mine - Tech provided with all worked amazingly, also apps used make sense and are on the whole easy to navigate/set up - Nice to work somewhere prosperous, it's clearly doing well. This results in an exciting, sheeny feel which is appealing - Generally efficient and clear (for example about interview processes, getting back to you etc) - Good pay & benefits (health&dental ins with no pre-existing conditions) - Onboarding buddy system was a nice touch
Cons
- There's A LOT of info to take on, to the point it can feel overwhelming - Some support is available to attack this, but a lot of it you're expected to direct yourself via inadequate/out of date learning packages. Training offer doesn't match slickness of company - Manager was inexperienced in people management and that showed - check-ins felt like a box-ticking exercise - Time differences can make it hard to unblock yourself - there's literally nothing you can do if no-one else is online - Very cut and dried when it comes to getting up to speed quickly but also accurately. For such a complex subject I found this expectation unreasonable - Found feedback disingenuous, for example seemed positive but actually negative (and the opposite). Didn't know where I stood at times - Very different feel between operations ie US vs.European - you're expected to take on that North American work approach (on all the time) which simply doesn't translate. They'd often say "don't work late" but it's impossible to do what's needed without doing so - Culture seems lovely at first (initial sheeny impression) but doesn't always translate remotely. Everyone was friendly and helpful in theory, but in day-to-day practice felt somewhat separate - Diversity could be better at team level - Said I could attend office regularly at interview stage but when it came to organising this they weren't keen (apart from sales staff) - Work feedback often totally contradicted itself so at times I had no idea how to proceed with two opposite action points
