Pros
- vegan lunches provided daily by in-house chef - mostly female co-workers & female CEO = girl power - beautiful office space - outdoor patio space for eating lunches - new office space off Main st in construction - 50% staff discount - bonus incentive if company reaches 90% of quarterly goal (I have yet to experience this benefit as the company has not been making goals in the past year) - 'Fresh Air Fridays' give employees the option to work from home on Friday's (but be prepared to spend approx 9 - 10hr workdays most other days of the week. While working through your lunch break and eating at your desk)
Cons
- Saje is a self-proclaimed 'Wellness Company' but your wellness is not their top priority. Making money is their top priority. Expect to work 9 - 10hr days, sitting through your lunch hour at your computer desk. If you are ill with the flu, you are still expected to bring your laptop home and work from home. My stress, anxiety, and depression levels have skyrocketed since I've started working at Saje (I believe stress-based. At my point of burning out) - job stability feels shaky (people are 'let go' aka fired and it is brushed under the carpet) The common excuse is, "they were not in their dharma / not a good fit". This excuse has been used too many times now and it feels ungenuine. I personally believe that the company is not making enough money and this is a way of budget-cutting: mass firing but trying to keep it a secret. I know that myself and other fellow employees I've talked to feel like we could be 'let go' any day without warning. Thus, most people are on the look-out for other career opportunities with other companies. - I have lost multiple friends/co-workers to the company secretly firing them. With no good reason for it except that they were not in their 'dharma'. I don't know much about the legal part of hiring/firing, but doesn't that sound somewhat illegal? Shouldn't a company have adequate reasoning to fire a faithful employee? I hear they were offered an ok severance package though. - company culture is cult-like (if you know anything about Lululemon company culture, Saje's culture is x1000 more intense) You can view this as a good thing, but you can also view this as a way of typecasting your employees. Saje uses a personality tool call The Enneagram, each individual chooses a number based on their personality (ex. 8's are outgoing, 4's are romantic artists, etc) but I find that the Enneagram is often used as a tool for discrimination - you become locked to that personality type and people assume parts of your personality and how you will react to situations based on it! - every morning you are expected to 'check-in' publicly to your larger team (aka marketing team, or product team, or accounting team) and tell everyone how you are feeling that day on a scale of 1-10. So if you are going through some personal issues or just feeling down, you would check in at a 7ish. However, at Saje, most people put on a mask and always check in at an 9 - 10 every day. - You are expected to always be happy, always be on your A-game, always be self developing, and moving the company forward, etc, etc. It can get exhausting. - One of our co-workers quit last year because she was being bullied by her manager. In her exit interview, she explained this to HR, but they did nothing about it. This manager continues to harass their team. This is devastating to that team's morale.
