Pros
The salary was competitive for the position, however it took negotiating when offered the job.
Cons
This was by far the worst company that I’ve ever worked for. The CEO is rarely around and only really shows up for “photo op” quarterly meetings. The main person involved in day-to-day activities is the COO. Despite his background and lack of experience, he’s seemingly given free reign to do whatever he wants. Despite his lack of knowledge and tendency to completely misinterpret things, he proverbially runs the show — and quite poorly. Anyone in the company will tell you communication is awful from top to bottom. Goals are often unrealistic, and always set in a completely whimsical, schizophrenic manner without regard to objective facts. The “leadership team” — all men — do not effectively communicate with the rest of the company. They don’t listen to feedback from staff. I’m convinced that I was fired because I provided honest feedback to the leadership team regarding their nonsensical, doomed-to-fail directions. I believe this because the reasons for my being let go were not even remotely true — in fact, the metrics that I was given were actually the complete revers of what the COO referenced. If you tell the “leaders” that something is unrealistic, they’ll tell you that you’re wrong. Then, later, when their plans fail like you told them they would, they just blame you. The CEO and COO are never to blame for their own terrible decisions. There’s also an extreme level of turnover in this company. Over the two years I was with the company, two CFO’s left, the IT department was fired, and multiple office staff were either let go or quit. The culture at this company is terrible, and it’s 100% because of the poor leadership. Working at Namco is basically like working at a used car dealership.
