Why I left:
- No work/life balance.
- Management lacks empathy that they are actually managing humans, with families, personal commitments, & sometimes stuff just happens. That would be called life.
- Lack of training
- Always changing and little time for employees to adjust and get up to speed before the next change.
- Not sure what the company values are these days. Definitely not its employees. Everyone is disposable.
- No collaboration among colleagues since everyone is trying to save themselves. Lots of finger pointing and blaming others.
- Just came out of bankruptcy spring 2014. The company is now being help to extremely tight financial standards. Corners were cut before and now budgets being chopped in half. Part of coming out is decreasing employee salaries over the next 5 years. It seems like they plan on accomplishing this by cutting headcount and combining positions into one. Employees are being offered severance or have the option to reapply for other internal positions.
- The newish CEO Michael Hansen appears to be just a hired talking head to try and get everyone to drink the Kool-Aid. He brought in his own team (Jim & George) to do the dirty work of cleaning house, blowing up existing business and rebuilding. Encourages everyone to speak up & be honest, but when someone does and they do not like what is said, they are gone shortly after. Everyone is terrified to say what they really think and just riding this wave out to collect their severance when it finally comes around to them. He wants to hire the cool hipster kids and is trying to create environments that will attract them. The new SF office is a perfect example of this. The office is gorgeous but seriously lacking in people. Supposedly the Boston office is moving or getting a make-over and there is talk of moving the Mason office to OTR to be in the cool part of town. Image is very important.
