Pros
For the most part, my co-workers were smart and a pleasure to work with. Ditto for my direct report. Roomy office on Willows Road in Redmond with large cubicles and a nice view. Easy access to downtown Redmond for lunches out.
Cons
Pay was below market prior to the Keywords acquisition. I hear that has not changed from current employees whom I worked with. My salary came in at nearly 10k under what my recruiter initially mentioned which wouldn’t have been so bad if the benefits weren’t over $300 per month for a single person.
My direct management was very disconnected - preferring to hide out in their office the whole day and offering us as little help as possible. This was a VMC cultural problem. If you had an office, you rarely left it and while doors were open at times, the open door policy that was espoused in my interview was not an actual policy in practice.
We had to submit a physical paper copy of our month end report to my group’s leader down in California because he liked being able to mark said copy up with his comments. Then he would Fedex it back to us. This in the mid 2010’s 😂
