The cons are starting to outweigh the pros
Pros
The goal of FamilySearch is to connect people to their families and ultimately to each other. The company’s mission is a noble one. Pros include: - good coworkers - decent health benefits
Cons
The company is drunkenly lurching side to side, sometimes even taking steps backward, in pursuit of their goal. Cons include: - 4 days in office policy that is almost completely at odds with the last four years of touted ‘good job working remotely’, complete with gaslighting explanations as to why. For a company so keen on promoting the family, this policy forces the young and the women to choose between having a job or having a baby. - no growth path for the majority of workers. Only the chosen few get to really progress, and many of those come with a ‘mandate from God’ attitude towards their promotions. - another participant in the 401k retirement scheme - huge fans of open-office concept, which kills concentration with a call-center feeling - actively discourages anything personal in the office, making the area feel more sterile than a hospital - upper management decisions are completely numbers-driven - the company is obsessed with the ‘do more with less’ mentality, encouraging shortcuts and leading to tremendous errors in datasets and an abysmal UX experience - sales and marketing rule the roost, while the subject matter experts are told to fall in line
