Toxic management culture ruins what could be a great place to work
Pros
Use of continuous improvement that has made indisputable contributions to the health of the business. Quite interesting work if you can see past the downsides.
Cons
Much of all the stuff they say about respect and trust etc to employees is a veneer for the still-present bullying and confrontational management regime that harks back to Tokheim Europe/Schlumberger RPS days (the two previous incarnations of the company). If you are not comfortable with bullying or badgering other people to get ahead, apply elsewhere. CI is great but there is too much doing it for the sheer hell of doing it. There is also a culture of "hire and fire" , with most new employees coming in as contractors to begin with so that they can easily be fired if they don't shape up. I've seen many potentially good people walk out because they couldn't handle the way they were being spoken to. Unreasonable demands made on people who are just in the door with very little training or development.
