Pros
It gave me the experience to learn enough and leave and go to a job and company that cares and appreciates its employees.
Cons
- Horrible Management from the Top; CEO, CIO, and CFO are all incompetent and horrendous communicators and only seemingly care about making more and more money at the expense of their employees. - Nepotism and hiring friends upon friends and favoring them over other employees - HIGHLY clicky environment. Most people are from the Association world (which is fine) but when you are not a part of that world, coming into that type of environment, you feel out of place and unwelcomed. - DEV team is not held accountable compared to other teams in the company - I was personally treated differently and more hostile than other persons in the company - Zero diversity (out of around 30 employees, I don't believe any were BIPOC at the time of my leaving) - Zero Culture - Poor PTO policy, no 401k, and poor benefits - NO HR AND I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. There were at least a handful of times where having no dedicated HR person was a huge detriment to the employee and highway robbery for the employer. 1. I had to fight tooth and nail to get my last paycheck and accrued PTO that I was owed and already worked for. It took them two months to deliver and I had to follow up constantly to ensure it was delivered. The CIO was highly rude, dismissive, and really didn't care that I didn't have my money for two months. I have learned that it has also happened to one of my former co-workers as well (she left after me), so this seems to be a recurring theme. 2. On top of that, during the pandemic, where everyone is working remote (and at least half of A2's employees were already remote), I moved locations and let the company know of my intentions, and months later, after everything was said and done and I was confirmed to move, had moved, they told me last minute they'd be cutting my salary by 25% and they told me "I was lucky to be able to have that." 3. One of my paychecks was incorrectly filled out where I got paid for the whole month in one paycheck, and zero dollars in the next paycheck. Instead of taking the lead and fixing the issue that was not my fault to begin with, I had to be the one to contact ADP and try to get it sorted out. The company did nothing about the mistake that THEY made. I still never got it sorted out and was out even more money due to the amount of taxes that were taken out. 4. Instead of having HR, A2 thought it was a brilliant idea to have the CEO essentially be HR and then have an automated service be A2's HR. So first it was a giant conflict of interest that an employee had to go to the CEO/owner of the company for any issues they were having, and later it was as if they didn't care and were super cheap instead of hiring a dedicated person.
