Pros
Great co-workers and travel accomodations
Cons
Throughout my time at V2, I struggled with “project management.” I sat down with management and told them I had to work overtime to keep up with my workloads and the tedious extras that came with their outdated processes (they worked from various excel spreadsheets and had little visibility into workloads). Management assured me this was a “me issue” and provided high-level solutions that never really did much for me. Eventually, I began reaching out to my coworkers to find insights into how . The overwhelming response (100% of the coworkers I asked) was they all were working unpaid overtime to keep up with workloads. I bit the bullet, embraced 50+ hour work weeks, and positioned myself to ask for a substantial raise. On my final employee review with the company, I was given glowing reviews from members of the management team. They praised my hard work, the quality of my writing, and the improvement of my project management skills. I thanked them, and then begin explaining how I’d been using a personal project management tool to stay organized but was still working unpaid overtime to keep up with workloads. I informed them that I spoke with several members of the staff and was quite concerned to learn that everyone was drowning and working extra hours to combat chaotic workloads... The information was disregarded and ignored entirely by the members of the management team I sat down with. Three business days later, I was terminated for poor performance...the turnover and employee burnout is real (despite extensive efforts to suppress that knowledge) and recognized. They just aren’t changing it. Whatever your position is, you will be underpaid by the amount of work they force on you. They preach culture, and the people are great individually, but management is so detached from accounts. Account leaders and management operate with a “what have you done for me lately” attitude with pizza parties tossed in.
