Now for the Cons. The absolute biggest Con here?....also can be summed up in 1 word....UPPER MANAGEMENT. I'm not referring to the manager, or even your team/departments Director, I'm referring to the top. Velocity has such awesome potential to be an excellent place to work full of opportunity and plenty of solid employees BUT, the leadership is failing badly. Now if they're reading this their first response will be that this is a growing pain of the business, it is NOT. Decisions are made in this company based on things such as what someone saw on tv, read in a fancy tech article, or what they heard a client or friend was doing with their business. They do NOT make decisions based on what's best for the company or the business itself. Not to mention they hire and let go of mid to upper management (i.e. Directors, VP's, Sr. Managers) like they're going out of style. At the end of the day employees are left asking themselves 1 major question "What am I working toward?". How can a team be successful if they go through 3+ different management members in the course of a year!? Guys this is technology, it can be done 10 different ways, and each 1 of those management members you brought on has a different way to do things. So as an employee you work toward one way, then eventually have to switch to another view, then another, and it becomes a sick cycle.
Lower level management is also terrified of top senior management. Terrified to the point that they give in to any and all demands as they fear for their jobs.
Now the morale in the company is awful. Employees are just not happy and this unfortunately does not include the most recent acquisition because they haven't seen everything yet.
HR is very unprofessional here as well, it's quite sad. Not only are they oblivious to what's really going on in the company but they too take part in fueling the fire here. It's also unfortunate to see how much private information ends up getting disclosed by HR "accidentally".
Another favorite con of mine, everything is a high priority, and I mean EVERYTHING. Half the time as an employee you don't know where to begin. Now if they weren't so understaffed this may not be an issue.
