Pros
Unfortunately, there were not a lot of positive things about working at CTB. Some of the details are listed in the "Cons" section.
Cons
Before I went to work at CTB, a former employee told me that CTB was the most messed up, unorganized and terrible place to work. I wrote that off, thinking the person must have been angry, had a bad boss or something like that. After all, no place is THAT bad. I thought, maybe there were some bad departments, but the whole place can't be that bad. I was wrong. There is absolutely NO work life balance. The few good executives were laid off and the rest are concerned more about gathering statistics than productivity. Management will say that the REASON they gather statistics is to increase productivity, so they make you spend a lot of time on lean/six sigma projects that take up A LOT of time. Unfortunately, the management does nothing with the results. CTB actually repeated two different projects while I worked there because they forgot the projects had been done previously. They did nothing with the four projects' results! A complete waste of productivity and time. Each department follows its own rules, so there is no cohesiveness throughout the company. If you will work with more than one department, you will need to learn how each department does the same task in completely different ways. You will spend a lot of time on busy work, projects that sit in files unread and more tasks like that. The pieces of the puzzle do not work together and it is incredibly frustrating. If you like spinning your wheel in mud and hitting your head against a brick wall just to get a paycheck, you will love CTB. Otherwise, save yourself the grief. I really wish I had.