- Planet does not operate leveraging any known, well-used industry standards in terms of project management, process, or procedures, which makes it really hard to deliver.
- Almost no one who works at Planet have any enterprise experience, particularly those who have worked at Planet for a long time--and it shows.
- The pre-sales team is a one-trick pony, selling the same project over and over and over.
- Architects spend 90% of their time doing hands-on engineering/implementation work, which we may enjoy from time to time, but it's not architecture.
- The Statement of Work contracts really, really suck, which always ends up throwing the delivery teams under the bus--and upper management doesn't acknowledge this and are resistant to fixing a problem they don't believe exists. Simply put, the content, terms, and conditions you would expect to see in a written, binding contract are completely absent.
- The kindest thing I can say about Planet's benefits package is that it's anemic; at worst, I can describe it as: "Why even bother offering benefits?" Medical/dental/vision is available (high deductible), and it was only this year they bothered to add an HSA, which the company contributes nothing to. There is a legal plan, which is nice to have but I'd take other benefits over this any day. They offer public transit and parking subsidies, which is completely useless post-COVID. (Why are they offering this again?) The 401k is the absolute worst I've ever seen with a 2% match up to 4% of your contribution. There are no other benefits or perks.
- No bonus structure. At. All. In an industry that offers bonuses as a standard just for getting someone to sit in their chair, this is woefully inadequate.
- Upper management (e.g., the owners and VP-level executives) are completely out of touch, don't understand, and don't seem to care. (At least one of them is also arrogant beyond belief, which I know because of the way he spoke to me during our initial meeting, in the first five minutes.)
- 90% of the clients/projects are very small.
