Pros
Your coworkers will be some of the most hard-working, intelligent people you'll come across. But sometimes they're the only thing that will keep you hanging on unfortunately.
Cons
Using bogus, management written reviews to call out current employees as complainers, blaming them for their own unhappiness and openly wishing they’d move on. Discrediting this site itself by telling potential employees to be skeptical of ANYTHING they read on Glassdoor in response to the few truthful posts that both current and former employees have written. Continuing to have a certain upper management figurehead write fluffy, trumped up reviews from “current employees” who claim they can’t think of one single thing that should be changed about the company--except for the few pesky coworkers that don’t fit in. Come on, now. When will enough finally be enough? The general public isn’t as stupid as you’d like them to be and the type of individual you hope to attract to your company certainly isn’t as naive. In fact, it usually takes one only 2-6 months (dependent upon your chosen department) of employment to realize that behind the promises of Fruit Tuesdays and Free Food Thursdays--there isn’t a whole lot worth writing home about. Now, once I’ve written this, they’re going to try to convince you that I’m some crazy, disgruntled ex-employee who is hell-bent on taking on their establishment one wicked sentence at a time with this review. That couldn’t be further from the truth, actually. I believe this company DOES have the potential to be great and do great things. Despite what their own reviews and responses indicate--they have great, intelligent people on the ground floor who do want to work hard and who have wonderful and creative ideas that would make things better and run even more efficient. But they’re not being heard and they’re definitely not being appreciated. I was there for several years--worked my way up within a department and did what I had to in order to survive. I had the privilege to work with a lot of talented, hard-working individuals who were wonderful to work with--some of whom are still there, but a lot of them who are not. But surviving is actually the key and operative word. Very few who enter those doors ever end up making this their forever home and a place to make a career of it. Long-term here means 5 years, if you're lucky. That’s because it becomes very apparent, very quickly upon arrival, how toxic and overbearing the environment is to work in. The vast majority instead spend their time simply trying to survive the day to day, until they can make the great escape. I won’t waste time going over the same grievances and issues that all of the other employees in the other reviews have already covered. Is micromanagement rampant? Yes. Are priorities often times unclear and the level of trust and morale low? Yes, again. All of the reviews the company is trying to bring into question and try to discredit are true and they’re real and none of it is being addressed and nobody with any real power is attempting to change anything. I think the fact that there are 300 plus inactive former employees in a company that at any one time only employs 50-60 people speaks pretty loudly for itself... Instead, time and resources are spent responding to and writing new Glassdoor reviews to raise ratings and cover up the faults that are being pointed out and brought forward. Instead of addressing things that would make the environment more inviting and their employees happier and truly feel more appreciated (and no, throwing free food, bonuses and gift cards at staff every few months does not make up for what they put up with the rest of the year), they’d rather play games with anonymous former employees on the internet to try and raise some stupid score. Now, I’m expecting the same cut and paste response to this, warning you of the credibility of these words and telling you to get your facts straight from the source. And I do agree with that last bit. Reach out to someone still working there with your questions. Just don’t expect to get an honest and truthful answer from them if you reach out to them via trackable means on the clock. Reach out by some other way and get them to answer your questions candidly and honestly. But wouldn’t it just be easier to combat the negative reviews with some positive changes? Maybe, just maybe, then the positive reviews would be truthful and a lot easier to come by.
