Pros
Excellent career opportunities, lots of upward movement available if you're motivated and interested. Flexible and caring environment. Supportive of professional goals as long as they align with business needs.
Cons
Hammer is flush with legacy leaders - the majority of the senior leadership team has decades of experience at the organization, and often their only professional experience has been at Hammer. While there are certainly strengths here in terms of institutional knowledge, it also means there is tons of resistance to change and an actual lack of professional experience. Many of the leaders started out in direct care services and moved into administrative functions, so you have people who learned on the job and likely do not have the educational background or outside experience necessary to ensure their function is up to industry standards or modern practices. Hammer has inconsistent pay practices - talking about wages or asking for increases is taboo, and sometimes even met with laughter, however you hear of other employees asking for increases and receiving them (such as male employees with male bosses having their requests granted). The budgeting process seems skewed - endless resources available for the people served, which I don't mean to suggest is a bad thing, but the staffing situation and associated wages is so dire that it makes you wonder what the priorities are or if they need to be reevaluted.