Pros
HR was super helpful, the insurance was pretty good (not super affordable or beneficial packages with deductibles, premiums, OOP maxes considered, but it WAS BCBS, so coverage was pretty good!), lower management was mostly good and kind and doing their best with what they could. They do offer a version of PPL to supplement FMLA and short-term disability for parental leave.
Cons
Pay was low, growth opportunities were not followed through on, middle and upper management was hard to work with, C suite lived and worked very comfortably, but lower-waged workers had to fight for $0.50/hr pay increases at review time while our meetings touted how much in profits we were making. I continued to do more work, outgrew my job title, was given more work, was working far outside my contracted hours, had recommendations by project managers, was a requested resource for new projects, trained new hires, and was offered a $1/hr raise at review time, having done this steady and constantly increasing labor for at least a year. Only to bring me up to the wage my colleague who was hired at the same time, same education and experience level, almost exactly same job title (did the exact same work as I), was offered at hiring, two and a half years prior. The CEO is just like any other CEO, regardless of how “on the ground” and approachable he tries to seem: a rich, talking head, with enough knowledge to intimidate you and keep you low on the rungs, but somehow not enough to provide an equitable business model or personally be able to influence your wage increases. Cashiers at the grocery stores down the road made more than those on the team that brought a massive portion of the monthly profits. The difference is Antea required a full bachelors degree for the same pay…