Pros
Bonuses twice a year, catered lunches 3-5 times a year, Christmas party, co-workers are generally pleasant, decent (but expensive) benefits.
Cons
This place is rotten from the top down. As other reviewers have said, the control freak owners are involved in the day-to-day operations and it really hinders the growth of the company as well as the general morale and atmosphere. They impose insane and backwards rules for every little thing in the company. Brewing coffee in the building was outlawed for decades, though the advent of Keurig changed this eventually. You need to go on break the exact minute you're assigned to or face the consequences. I've seen employees reprimanded for going on break (literally) three minutes late because they were finishing a call or a project. Since the owners are completely insane, middle management is forced to make their employees comply or face their wrath. This means moronic and counterproductive policies are continued and no one has the courage to stand up to the owners. If one of the owners dislikes you or you disagree with them, they find a way to fire you. Period. This creates a culture of fear and distrust often bordering on the surreal. I've been called into meetings where whole departments have been told not to talk to each other socially for more than five minutes a day because one of the owners might hear them. I've seen an employee suspended for cueing up a podcast on YouTube. I've seen an employee fired for asking for a raise. I've seen an employee fired over a $4 discrepancy on the company card. It will take you three years before you get two weeks vacation. Absolutely no paid sick days. You do get seven unpaid personal days a year. Raises are a complete joke. If you're not a salaried employee it's a 2% raise once a year. It's pretty humiliating to directly help the company increase revenue by millions one year and then get a twelve cent raise. For this reason, no one with any real talent or ambition sticks around long. They see it for what it is and move on. Most departments have absolutely zero room for growth or advancement. The people who stay generally fell into positions they're unqualified for and know they're making far more than they're worth or could hope to make anywhere else without being found out. There is a physical and a digital side to Midwest Tape. Physical more or less has everything figured out and runs smoothly as they've been sending media to libraries for decades. Employees aren't treated or paid well, but the work gets done in a reasonably efficient manner. Lots of overtime if you want it. The digital side is hoopla. hoopla is held together by duct tape, string, and a lot of prayers. There are no processes in place for anything. No one knows what they're doing or communicates with anyone else. The platform is so poorly designed and the backend is the epitome of counterintuitive. I've never seen any department ran quite so poorly in my entire life. Before you consider applying at Midwest Tape I hope you read carefully my review and the other reviews posted here. Save yourself the grief of wasting years of your life at this company. Stay far, far away.