Pros
-You *might* be able to have flexibility to work from home, depending on whether or not you’re lucky to have a lax manager (no consistency amongst them) and if they happen to like you on any given day. -You *might* get to travel to some neat places, but once again, this all depends on being in the good graces or being one of the favorites of your manager. And if you do, expect to have to write a report while driving or while squished in the seat of an airplane with no wifi. - They pay 100% of employee health coverage -As others have stated, the only redeeming quality of Trileaf seems to be its employees. There is great camaraderie amongst many of the employees due to the fact that all of them are drowning in their misery together. How management has not figured this out, I’m not sure.
Cons
There is not much to be said about Trileaf that hasn’t already been said, but its amazing how the toxic culture seems to permeate across offices all over the country. That seems to really speak to how prevalent the negative culture is here. Yikes. -Managers are promoted too soon (some will even tell you this themselves), because the only real qualification to be a manager is to appear to make your client happy and meet your numbers. You don’t need any technical expertise or knowledge, or to actually know how to write and deliver every product (unlike many scientists, who ARE expected to know this). You only need to have been a golden child for 1 or 2 years at Trileaf. You also don’t get any training on how to manage people effectively, so this combination leads to managers overcompensating by being condescending and patronizing any time things don’t go their way, and directing this at their employees on a regular basis. -If you question anything - how a process works, or maybe a technical aspect of something - you will be shunned into a corner, and maybe even threatened with being fired. Trileaf likes people who blindly follow their (sometimes flawed) process and write reports as. quickly. as. possible. If you question the content of anything, need clarification, or want to capitalize on a learning opportunity on a more complex project, you’re viewed as a problem. Partially because the untrained managers don’t have a good explanation for you (once again, they’re not knowledgeable on many technical aspects) and partially because you’re taking valuable time that COULD be used to write a report, and instead you’re asking valid questions or trying to help improve the process and/or your own knowledge base. - Almost everyone seems to be overworked (except for maybe some lazy managers). If you speak up and say you’re overworked or have too much, you’ll either be told ‘everyone else is also maxed out’ or ‘you don’t know how to manage your time’ or maybe both. They’d much prefer if you wrote a crappy report, quickly, than actually thinking about or check the words on the page. Oh, and if you actually show any willingness to work on weekends and stay late at night, expect them to take full advantage of this.
