Pros
- People are friendly - Two catered lunches and 1 breakfast every week. Sometimes they have people come in cook omelet on site - Laid back environment - Flexible schedule. Can work from home - 4 months fully paid maternity leave in US
Cons
Under this seemingly calm, laid back and harmonious environment, this company is dysfunctional in many different ways: - The environment is almost too laid back and too comfortable for a company like this size. Probably that's why the company is not growing as there's lack of energy in the office. - Promotion is not merit based but based on favoritism. People are being held to different standards. Sometimes on the same team, hard working people's hard work went unrecognized or was taken for granted but people who constantly not pull their weight and reply on the team to help out got promoted frequently. - Founders of the company, aka, the senior management, tend to keep and promote incompetent people who have been with the company for a long time (5+years). This holds back the company growth especially when these people are heading up some departments. When such department heads are so incompetent, basically decisions made from hiring to day-to-day operations are not in the company's best interest. - The management lack of vision. It's confusing people a lot.