Toxic, Bullying, Exploitative Culture - Give this company a wide birth
Pros
Colleagues in my immediate team were mostly lovely people even in the face of uttelrly dire adversity. Good boot camp environment to toughen you up & prepare you for a much higher calibre role, where you will easily over deliver after surviving the ordeal.
Cons
Underpaid for doing 2 roles minimum for the price of one. There is a pervasive bullying, blame culture where management passively condones bullying in the workplace, denying it exists or simply turning a blind eye to it. The corporate 'Guiding Principles are an absolute joke. Look through them and just take the polar opposite for each and every principle as being the truth. Scapa has no flow and an American 'run on bare bones', exploitative hire and fire mentality. They get rid of or drive people out the door with stress and illness and then don't rehire. They rather place the additional workload on their remaining colleagues until the strain is more than even a total workaholic could manage. It becomes both unbearable and also a big risk for your health. Did I mentiom the pay yet? Oh right, your prize for consistent dedication and hard labour? The equivalent of 1 average quality chocolate bar a day more for doing 3 peoples' job (yours which is 2 peoples' work to begin with + the work of an unreplaced former colleague on top). So if you value your health, self esteem and psychological wellbeing, don't even look at their office as you drive past it, let alone be daft enough to enter the building and dare to be interviewed for a role there. The most shocking thing? That they can get away with treating people in such a demeaning, shameful way and not be sussed and sanctioned or even go bust. In a nutshell, they represent the very worst of American exploitative business culture. I know this to be true because I have also experienced the very best of American business culture, so I'm in a good position to contrast and compare notes. However, since I found a new job, I have been doing exactly the same stuff I did at Scapa and Yet am paid much better and regularly praised for my initiative, team contributions & 'high quality work ethic' instead of being ritually ridiculed, blamed for the mistakes of others and picked at like some kind of incompetent imbecile. Thanks anyway Scapa for making me a much stronger individual and also for driving me straight into the arms of a proper employer. I was lost but now am found...