Leadership is going backwards
Pros
-The vast majority of the colleagues are nice, genuine people, who can admit to mistakes, or resolve misunderstandings amicably. -Reasonable benefits Pre-August 2024
Cons
-New merit-based performance evaluations go beyond even the company that the new model has been emulated after. Previously directors would tell new hires that the company would never go this route, only to do so, with annual incentive no longer being guaranteed. Bonuses are introduced, that warrants an immediate 40% + tax taken out. Unachievable goal posts will constantly change with criteria, and subjective language is now open-season to deny annual salary incentive. -Leadership is strongly misleading. Recent staff cuts have been spun as jobs that were simply 'no longer needed' based on the communication email sent out. Meanwhile, on the most recent all-hands, leadership then said that the cuts made and the individuals chosen was agreed upon all leadership. The reality is that one individual cherry picked high earners, all but one were fully remote, mostly over the age of 40 (higher health insurance premium cost), and everyone else was too afraid to challenge said person. -You'll find often that a lot of the communication is pretentious in nature, pulling on empathy and what not, only for the complete opposite to occur. -A very small few bad players have significant personal ties to leadership, resulting in their bad behavior being ignored. One of those employees is still on the payroll, despite openly admitted to sleeping through internal meetings, more than just a few times. This is in violation of the company's own employee handbook, yet there has been zero reprimands, amongst other complaints. -If you're local in Lynchburg you are automatically treated in a more favorable manner. After the staff cuts a few folks have miraculously gotten promoted in very short amount of time. -Interns along with lower salary costs are the primary focus for staffing going forward over experienced IC's. -Arrogance by some very specific project leads resulted in a very lucrative contract not being renewed. Leadership needs to stop viewing these individuals 'like sons' and have them perform roles that play to their actual strengths, along with emotional intelligence maturation. One particular well-favored individual drops F-Bombs daily on internal calls. That is evidently a lack of professionalism that is being enabled by leadership.
