Pros
• Benefits are good. They provide 100% coverage for employees and 80% for dependents • Free in-office meals and snacks pre/post(?) covid. Normal tech world stuff • Scribd Flex program lets you work from where you want - remote/in-office/hybrid • Thoughtful in-person and virtual events. Hardworking People Team • Smart, caring, hardworking peers (keyword: PEERS) • Well-intentioned employee resource groups (facilitated by employees) that seem to pick up a lot of the slack for the gaps in support from leadership
Cons
• Industry-low wages - it just is what it is. They talk a lot about doing compensation analyses but that isn't apparent or reflected in salaries. They also took bonuses away from the hourly employees a couple of years ago so don't expect anything above and beyond your hourly wage if you're not salaried unless you buy your stock options (which, at this point, are likely unaffordable to hourly employees) • Outlook isn't great - general finances look more dismal by the month no matter how fluffed up they make other things look and the apparent need to mention to the masses that you aren't considering layoffs as a result is disconcerting. I get it, but it isn't reassuring • Little to no opportunity to learn OR grow and if your wages don't offset the stagnance then what's the point? • Lack of challenging or meaningful work • The transparency seems inconsistent. There is a lot of talk about what is going well and what actions are taken in terms of social responsibilities but the secrecy about higher-level (or not) resignations is weird • Turnover is CRAZY. This is a rough estimate but based on what we're privy to and what information we're able to see, turnover looks to be somewhere in the 20-25%/year range. People are leaving in droves and for a company with a headcount that hovers somewhere around 320-330, it's a large chunk of people and it becomes really rocky • Management with longevity gets away with anything and everything. HR does NOT rock the boat and the general consensus among employees that have attempted to rectify something through HR is that they just don't care about employee hardships or mistreatments. Depending on who you end up working under, it ranges from favoritism to full-on public beratement