Extremely Efficient, Extremely Hard on Employees
Pros
Very efficient processes, very quick to adapt to new technology, always searching for better ways to do things. New ideas are encouraged and input from younger team members is valued. Headquarters is a very nice, very modern building.
Cons
Career tracks are built with minimum time inputs and performance reviews are very subjective. Employees have to answer strange, outdated questions for the reviews to which management redlines their responses. Any questioning of any management is usually met with extreme hostility, and often firing. The turnover rate when I was employed was 64%. Deadlines are made to push employees as hard as possible. Taking a full lunch is “encouraged” but looked down on. Any cell phone usage is disallowed. Employees are tracked via their badges throughout the building and time away from desks is noted. While you generally have 18 days of PTO, there are blackout dates when you can’t use them (roughly 8 weeks a year: a week before and after quarter-end). Overall, major culture concerns. The stated culture, the mission and vision, are incredible, but the actual implementation of those values is inept. Going home for any reason is looked down on; one time the Wi-Fi went out across the town, and as we could do no work, we thought we should go home. Instead, we were forced to stay, and sat around for 4 hours while the Wi-Fi was out. We could have worked from home and gotten things done, but instead, headquarters came to a standstill because management couldn’t handle everyone going home to work.
