- Poor Culture. I unfortunately knew about halfway through my first day (yes, my first DAY) that this was not a company that I had any desire to stay long-term. It immediately felt very cliquey, and I never did feel like I was truly welcomed or appreciated. I worked directly with one executive-level individual nearly everyday for months and she was still getting my name wrong most of the time up until my second to last day in the office.
- No On-boarding. There was very little to no on boarding within the team whatsoever. Without any training, I was thrown into backed up tasks on the first day that my boss had ignored since the person I replaced had left months prior to my start date and nobody else on my team learned how to complete those tasks in the interim. As I said, there was not really any sense of culture in this company, and I never felt like I got the chance to understand the scope of what our purpose as an organization was, what value we truly provided to our members or even what people on other teams did in their day-to-day.
- Poor Communication. My specific team was terrible at communicating across the board. Many of the tasks/requests I received day-to-day came with inadequate information. Some of these were so basic that it could have taken one complete sentence to cover all their bases, but many times they couldn't even give us that. The supervisors didn't communicate well at all with their staff and, even worse, they didn't communicate hardly at all with other teams/departments. Nobody ever seemed to know what other teams were working on, and in the meetings I sat in, there always seemed to be a discomfort with one another inter-departmentally.
- Bad Benefits. Really poor health insurance. This was blamed on the fact that this is a small organization but I've worked for smaller organizations with much better benefits so I'm not sure what the real issue is. Also - if you're planning to have a family, note that they do not offer the minimum 12 week FMLA unpaid leave. They only offer up to 8 weeks unpaid time. They are legally allowed to do this, being an organization under 50 employees, but in my opinion it is unacceptable that an organization, regardless of size, isn't willing to offer new parents the minimum 12 weeks unpaid time off. Again, I've worked for smaller organizations that have offered at least that regardless of their legal obligation.
