This company is fueled on nepotism and favoritism. Very "good ole' boy" mentality. If you don't hunt and hang your kill on your wall, you won't fit in. If any company oozed out of touch white man - this is it. If you are seeking diversity - don't give this company a second look. Top executive leadership are all related to each other - that alone made me very uncomfortable and I should have listened to my gut when I interviewed, but the position and the pay made me push down my intuition to run far and fast.
They touted they were interested in real change, but if the CEO didn't agree with you, your days were numbered. You learn quickly that he has the ear of very select few in the company. You cannot push forward your ideas that you were hired to implement without the fear of retribution. The company expects you work long hours - most days I worked 7:30am-8pm. Yes, you can leave the office, but you continue to receive calls and emails (from said CEO and his relatives who expect you answer no matter what time) well after your day should have ended. I was involved in multiple meetings where I witnessed the CEO yelling, cussing and slamming his hands on the table like a toddler who missed his nap time. He and his relatives also perpetuated a blame culture where the sales team were exalted like the messiah himself while the operations team was blamed for anything that went wrong - even if the sales team didn't know their heads from a hole in the ground.
When I was hired, I was told to read a book that basically laid out the framework of how we should run our team meetings and set our goals and discuss with other teams what roadblocks were were facing. Anyone who has worked in any business environment knows with this type of direction, each & every team in the company must comply for it to truly work. Guess who said it was BS and his team (he led sales at the time) was not taking place in it? You guessed it - the CEO. This caused two directions in the company at all times and you could never get on one page. I was told more than once not to listen to the CEO and do what my direct leadership told me to do. You felt constantly at odds to impress the CEO while others on his executive team (that he's related to) are telling you to ignore what he says. You really can't make this up. Truly the most toxic and unprofessional environment I have ever worked.
The work life balance is non-existent and your family life will suffer if you sign up to work here. If you are still reading and this wasn't bad enough, they have ONE person they trust (who isn't related to them) whom they have basically given the keys to the kingdom who is the worst kind of leader - she runs her areas like Regina George in Mean Girls. They present her as a mentor for new members of leadership but she is only interested in promoting herself and if she decides she doesn't like you, your days are even shorter. I dare say she has more power than the CEO himself and they have blindly given it to her.
I won't bore you further with their asinine idea to run on two HRIS platforms. Sales was pushed to stop selling the tried and true PEO solution, and to sell the new kid on the block system that seemed shinier and prettier. The teams where pushed to learn the new system and to migrate existing clients to it, while continuing to operate on the legacy system. Guess what? They have now dropped their ridiculous pursuit of the new, shiny system and have stopped selling it and have gone back to the legacy system. Again, you really can't make this stuff up.
