Pros
- Buildings are the best in class - Office closes at 3 pm on Summer Fridays - Decent medical/dental insurance although wageworks FSA is the worst part. - Monthly commuter contribution to employee - Good 401k
Cons
IT Department is very toxic environment. There are a lot of issues with IS Management. The IT department has a top/down mentality and this mentality comes from the very top management in IS. This mentality of the management prohibits growth and it is not collaborative. If someone offer an alternative, that idea will not be welcomed. The IS environment is infectious and is driven by IS leadership. In my view the networking team and the help desk teams do not work well together and it has a trickle down effect that negatively impacts the department. The leadership in network services are actually engineers promoted as managers. In fact they shouldn’t have been promoted as managers as they are not very people oriented. They lack managerial qualities. All the important technical work would be actually done by them and only irrelevant and not much visible projects would be given to the Engineers. They travel around to other regions under the disguise of work and spent time in conferences like RSA, EMCWorld and VMworld and do not give the engineers the opportunity to go either of these events or to these regions. The IS leadership has major trust issues and would not give work to anyone they do not trust. There is no training provided by the company and they expect you to complete projects with technology that no one has any idea. Also Boston Properties does not allow work from home even on inclement weather conditions. Also they pay is not good. No paternity leaves and maternity leave is just outdated. The company is very much old school. Its very much a 60’s environment. Also the HR department does not work for employees rather on behalf of executives. Complaints made to the HR department against the senior Leadership always falls on deaf ears.