Pros
1. An employer who take care of employees. Keep all employees safe during the peak of the pandemic. Gave extra $ to buys some office gear to help with working from home adjustments. Most companies spend months just trying to set their employees up with a laptop and vpn. HOOPP had all the gear, technology figured out so that we could do our jobs. This was priority 1.
2. You won’t work for a billionaire or faceless shareholders. Its core mission is to serve our amazing healthcare workers of Ontario. Every employee in HOOPP knows why they are here and are very proud of it. Providing our members with guaranteed retirement benefits is the mission we all come to work for every day.
3. Professional, Compassionate, Collaborative and Trustworthy (and I should add Diverse) work environment. In its our goals and we are measured on it. A company that is making transparent strides to be diverse in all manners. You can be who you are here at HOOPP.
4. Flexible working model. Some groups are working on establishing a Hybrid working model. HOOPP cares about their employees and the personal adjustments they will need to make to return to an office-based environment over time. The company promotes the value of employee connections, interactions, and staff engagement.
5. Amazing benefits, vacation time, work life balance days, training time, DB pension plan.
6. Downtown location 5 minutes away from the Union Station. Not great for all but can be considered in the middle for everyone in GTA.
7. Great colleagues who will have your back and support each other (clearly exceptions exist everywhere where some who think they are professionals are clearly weak based on their posts).
8. Great technology and IT department from the management to all the agile teams. These guys handle the technology for a $100 billion dollar fund. They are skilled and professional, how else would the technology for one of the most successful and biggest pension funds in the world be run? By luck? By incompetence, really? don't be fooled. The IT management and teams know not what they are doing. Contrary to previous posts.
8. Plenty of learning opportunities for those that want to. If you are a positive and goal focus individual then this is a place for you. Don’t let the negative posts from current or past negative employees fool you. Turnover rates in certain fields are always higher than others. IT people with certain skills are more marketable than others especially in fintech, Investment Management, security, or Finance. People will always leave for their own decisions, but it’s not because of the lies that are being stated by obvious disgruntled employees
Cons
1. HOOPP needs to stop being so compassionate and stop being patient with (small number) failed employees who clearly only get pleasure from posting negative things about their colleagues and work environment. Professionals would simply leave and not post harmful mistruths.
2. Be very clear, these tiny number of HOOPP employees obviously don’t understand the meaning or the values of the company and what HOOPP stands for. The vast majority of HOOPP staff do not feel these negative statements posted of late are true. Enough is enough.
