Pros
The only pro I can find is that there are a few fantastic people that are stuck in the same position as you. You'll find a bit of solidarity there. There is no other positive.
Cons
I was prompted to share my experience after seeing another honest review. The company focuses on all of the wrong things and label it improvement. Management is very quick to pat each other on the back and celebrate "learning and growing" but makes no strides towards true improvement. Employees who have given their all for decades are discarded. They consider themselves kind for telling an employee they have become redundant, then squeezing months of work out of them until they finally toss them. When they're done, they'll teach adjacent team members how to fill that role, but they're just succeeding in driving away talent. The ones that have stuck around are either top-level people who get to blame others for the problems, or they have been there long enough that management doesn't bother with them. Anova will not pay for quality equipment. We're expected to make it work and run each piece into the ground before a replacement will be entertained. Thanks, Finance! My buddies in sales can have iPhone 10s and 12s, but I am stuck with a 4-year-old laptop and a monitor from at MOST 2010. My equipment could be in grade school. Managers play favorites. Sales and marketing are treated as both the golden child and slaves. They will put pressure on you if you don't work outside of normal business hours. They have replaced all of their design team with interns simply because CAD Designers cost too much. Instead, they put their faith in an egotistical engineer to produce new marketable products with a team of students at a fraction of the cost. Why pay for one when you can get three or four inexperienced people who don't know any better? The designers were already far underpaid. This is why they couldn't find reliable help. The pay is far below market value for the given fields for each role, much less the metro area. My salary alone was $6-7k lower than the person in the role before me. What a steal! Y'all have Sharon, the absolute backbone of this company, working herself to death. This woman does not deserve that treatment. Putting people out of work every time something breaks OR IS HACKED, then depending on her to clean up your messes. She is a godsend and deserves better. Anova is NOT a safe employer for people of color. This is not a safe space for minorities of any sort. This is not a safe workplace for LGBT. Any issues brought to management regarding sensitive issues will be whitewashed. The CEO and HR specifically pretend to be "woke" and do not follow through at all. While it is preached that Anova welcomes all people to be individuals, it is clear that only those with Christian values can actually feel free to be themselves without repercussions. C-level management will even sit you down for coaching if they feel like you enjoy your weekends and free time more than you want to come to work. They'll question your loyalty over a "TGIF" among coworkers. You can't even go to HR about it, because Gretchen has made clear she knows her place is watching youtube and staying out of employee relations. Anova, you have a few good people that you are driving away. Management thinks they're actually doing something when they get rid of employees they think are wasteful. The company is going to lose much more than that and it will be their own fault. Good people don't stay with bad managers. Compensate fairly, equip them to do their jobs, and stop expecting people to be entire departments. If you are planning on going into any role other than sales or customer service, DO NOT DO IT. Even those two teams should be short-term only. Marketing will be micromanaged to no end, instruction will be unclear, and deadlines even muddier. New Product Design will have you feel like you're talking to a wall, and you'll be severely underpaid. The IT Dept is nonexistent and they can't keep people in that role, so they keep outsourcing. Probably because of the money issue. If you're in Finance, it's very likely that Mike will raise his voice at you until you cry. If I had to see another woman cry over that yelling, I was going to lose it. No job is worth this, and any prospective candidate deserves more. I would NEVER go back to this place. I'm both shocked and not at all surprised by how quickly things are deteriorating.