There is a list...
1. Management - Have you ever heard the term "Too many Chiefs, not enough Indians" RP is the perfect example. At one time there were 6 managers, over a department of 12 people. And 5 out of those 6 managers were clueless, ineffectual, and actually caused me mental anguish.
2. Insurance - The insurance is decent, if you are coming from having no insurance, from paying for your own insurance, or from a staffing agency with 4 people insurance. For a company that claims to care about employees, they carry insurance that a company half their size would not purchase.
3. Culture - When there is a person, high up in the chain of command of your company that has a title of Chief People Officer? That tells you the culture. They want you to think they are cool, and fun, and with the times, when they really just want to push you to your breaking point, squeeze the soul and fun out of your job, and make you produce to a plan they have concocted but don't know how to execute it. They also love to say that they respect their clients. They do not. I honestly feel for any client of RP that has been sold on "Personal Interaction" You will have a person assigned to you that will be your Account Manager, he will also have 5 other clients he is responsible for, but really, he is the smoke blower, he will have to have meetings with other departments to make sure you get what you need done, those departments will drop the ball, and he will apologize profusely, promise to fix it, and take an extra 2 - 3 weeks of your life.
4. Metrics - This of course is not new in the IT Industry by any means. However, when you cannot quantify a task in metrics, the management is so dependent on them, their brains collide in a calamity of constant numbers reports and futile repetitive questions.
I could go on. And for the record, RealPage is a large company, so they must be doing something right, but they outsource to the Phillipines to save a dime over quality, they force good employees to other companies because they need to make a Billion by 2020. And honestly, if you have ever wanted to dislike a company like Exxon, BP, or Halliburton? You know, a company that does what it can to get ahead, regardless of who or what it tramples over while pretending to be the good guys? RealPage is your perfect candidate.
