Pros
- Some great people that are smart and fun to work with - Casual dress - Opportunity to travel, depending on your role
Cons
- Pay is way below market to a point where it's insulting - even for small business standards. The parent company seems hard set on underpaying employees (at least in the US - I have no idea what they do in Europe), and does not generally give increases unless you are promoted. Instead of paying fairly and competitively, they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on travel and the employee event. This is a poor allocation of funding that resonates across the US subsidiaries as a complete lack of value for the employees. - The US business has no mission, no vision, and no long-term goals with action plans, which is primarily the fault of the parent company. It's a parent company's job to create and foster the foundations of its subsidiary businesses, and this isn't a thing. Instead, they are more focused on minutia, wasting time and staying heavy-handed in the wrong places. The resulting waterfall effect has over time gotten US employees running around in a million different directions with different ideas and little cohesion. - The parent company pretty much refuses to acknowledge how to adapt their business to operate in the US, and it's really obvious. They are approached about this regularly, well aware of it and largely ignore it. - Toxic environment: the parent company is a nightmare to work with (they will blame that on you). If you are an entry-level US employee and sheltered from them, you probably have had a better experience, maybe even a pleasant one. - Empty promises from overseas are the norm, as is the practice of stringing people along, and they know it. - The culture of the business is heavily based on gossip. People generally are not trying to hide their comments, which make it through the rumor mill across countries. Sometimes information will be passed along or misconstrued to benefit the person providing it. - Some perfectly good employees get tagged (forever) by overseas management as bad employees, based on personal feelings, lack of information, and/or misinformation. They don't work with the US employees side-by-side on a regular basis, yet seem to think they have the most accurate opinions of them. This goes hand-in-hand with the gossip thing. - No transparency; exactly the opposite.