Pros
First I want to mention that our marketing department sent out an email today encouraging current employees to leave reviews. Apparently there were some old, unfavorable reviews left that they want to negate with more positive ones. I read some of the most recent reviews left in the last couple of days/weeks and they read like PR. Here's an honest review from an employee that wants change. PROS: 1. Work/Life Balance (Standard Office Hours, MOST positions don't require more than 40 hours a week) 2. Paid Time Off Program and Company Paid Holidays 3. Benefits 4. Salary (Based on what other employees have told me, their salaries are either average or above-average for their position). General salary increases appear to be given as the company grows, but not on a yearly, or regular, basis. 5. Co-workers-MOST co-workers within their departments have friendly/respectful relationships.
Cons
1. Management - Most of management is hired from outside, very few internal moves are made. Almost all current management was hired from another single company, one that failed. Executives keep bringing in people they used to work with from this failed company, and those people hire people that worked their as well. Our company name should basically be change to "Failed Company 2.0". Good employees were basically forced out, and new people managers used to work with were brought on, that are sub par and come with the attitude that they can do no wrong since they are "buddies" with their manager. 2. Division of Departments - None of the different departments work together. It's basically "This is how we want to do it, and we don't care how it affects you or your team". Even when new procedures are created to bridge this gap, no one follows them. Everyone continues to do things how they've always done them and the procedures aren't enforced by the management of the offenders. And the management of the teams being affected comment "oh well, this is how they are, so we have to deal with it". You have to bend to their will, not the policies of the company. It's inefficient and counter productive. 3. Communication - Half the battle of the division of departments is that shared communication only happens between management. very little of it trickles down to members of the teams that it actually applies to. Management is also horrible with communicating with their own employees in general, i.e. providing feedback on performance, goals, projects. "Nobody told me about that" should be our slogan.
