Pros
Amazing group of engineers, developers, projects managers, visual designers and solution architects.
The people are honestly one of the only pros at this point. Many of us have been here for 5+ years.
Flexible work environment which is nice, but not incredibly uncommon in the tech space these days but it is nice how understanding everyone is.
We have a coffee maker and some small snacks. Most of the real perks have slowly dwindled away over the years.
Cons
Incredibly low morale, to the point where I don't think upper management really knows how bad it is. There seems to be a false sense of reality going on.
Management is grasping at straws attempting to address financial problems. The attempt to solve core business issues have culminated in booking production teams at 100%+ productivity resulting in guaranteed overtime without pay/compensation for months on end. Booking developers on 2, 3, 4 different projects without accounting for time needed for context switching, code reviews or documentation maintenance is a sure way to create information silo's while pushing your best performers out the door for greener pastures.
Production team is for all intents and purposes; setup to fail by being over booked, then are at risk of being viewed as "the problem" when they don't make a deadline. See previous comment about feeling defeated and deflated.
Significant lack of leadership who can share what the company vision is moving forward and what the plan is to achieve real goals. The people in upper management positions are likable, and it's basically a family at Hanson, but it doesn't change the reality that the company needs to do some real soul searching in order to solve the financial problems that have plagued us for many years now.
Meritocracy inversion. Merits aren't really based on who provides value to the company as much who has been here longer and who repeats the company status quo lingo. It's time for truly new ideas.
New/Fresh ideas that DO surface into process improvement come from the talent and are credited to middle/upper management. This has resulted in forcing the most talented to punch-in/punch-out.
Below average and well below market pay and benefits.
Parking is a couple blocks away and will be wonderful when the snow comes.
