Pros
Flexible remote work policy, friendly coworkers, and a cool office space. The US office is great, the people are great, and it’s a fun environment to be in. They offer a lot of team building activities, volunteering activities, and have an inclusive work space.
Cons
As a US finance employee, you report to the UK. They do not have a strong onboarding process in Finance, so you are forced to train within the few hours you overlap with the UK, when they are available. If you are trained once on something and a nuanced situation comes up, they might help you or tell you that you were already trained on it, even if this nuanced situation did not come up during training. If there is a change in process, it will get buried within Teams and briefly mentioned to you before they end their day. The work is expected to be done a day early since they are 6 hours ahead. You have no real guidance, direction, or training, but the expectation is for it to be done earlier than everyone else. The UK will take up your entire morning with meetings, give you tasks to complete, but not acknowledge that you also have a full-time job for the US side of the company. The US operations can have questions or tasks regarding payments, billing, payroll, banking, taxes, etc that take up the other half of the day so you are forced to work late to get tasks done for the UK in time (then find out the next day thay they changed a process so all that extra time spent was worthless). The company tries to sell that they value work/life balance and company culture, but I’ve never been more overworked, burned out, and miserable working somewhere. I hated waking up in the morning knowing I would have passive aggressive Teams messages from the UK waiting for me. UK management doesn’t seem to conceptualize that the US has the same amount of revenue as the UK, but their finance staff is a quarter of the size of the UK’s and required to do the same amount of work. I can go on and on. The turnover in the finance department as a whole is ridiculously high.
