Pros
It’s a great industry with great people. The job is cool and it can be profitable to work for MicroStar, although there is no commission structure at the entry employee level. The people are great to work with and I always looked up to Michael as our leader. He had a calm sense of control and he smiled at the same time. Loved that. I felt heavily supported by my direct bosses there because they were both high quality people. The teammates were quality people too. The company let’s you fail and will pick you up and dust you off and put you right back in. I loved that about MicroStar. The C-Suite is a great set of people, I owe a lot of success to each one for different reasons.
Cons
One in-person training event in 3 years. We read books and talked about it but in terms of actual mentorship or serious training, it never happened except over a 3 day trip, which was phenomenal, but very late in the game for it to be effective at retention, if that was the aim. The management kept getting better titles while you stay in the same position while doing jobs way beyond your original scope, then make you feel bad for asking for a new title to match your new responsibilities (or those you’ve been doing for years without the credit or pay). I left because of this. It’s not a title thing, it’s a forward direction thing. And it falls on deaf ears when execs get new bloated titles but you’re still in the trenches as a private 3 years into the fight for no stated or documented reason. The bonus structure was built on a sandy beach, it kept moving with the tide of every little bump in the market. At the very least, the bonus structure is not transparent enough to know exactly what you’ll be getting. You can try to figure it out, but it never came out the way I understood things and so I just stopped expecting it, which naturally makes people work less fervently for a company. Understanding the principles of Integrity, this needs some attention. I can't say it any other way. The leadership is in covered, iron-gated parking while they make their salaried employees move their cars every 2-4 hours or park a mile away from the building and refused to pay for parking when we requested it over and over.