Pros
There are very few Pros that come to mind when I think about 2G Robotics, but these are the only ones I can think of: - The people that work here are resilient and dedicated to doing quality work even though they are most often not set up for success and are taken advantage of - It is a casual environment with a good amount of flexibility
Cons
Where to begin.... It all starts and ends with the CEO. He makes irrational & thoughtless decisions because he is accountable to no one. He genuinely doesn't seem to care about anyone working for him and treats his employees as dispensable. At routine company-wide meetings he rambles on about meaningless things but provides no real transparency or commentary on the direction or financial stability of the company. Compensation is well below market comparables. From speaking with individuals in various functions within the company, this appears to be a pervasive issue. The justification for this is that you will get learning opportunities and experience here that will make it worth it. While this may be true for a very small populous of the company, generally there is no real career progression or development path for most roles. While all or nearly all roles are over-worked, it is not with personal development, value-add type work - it is mostly just doing anything and everything needed to keep one's head above water with all the ballooning duties. Further, the CEO micro-manages. He hires people that are supposed to be experts in their fields but when someone tries to initiate a new process or project, he gets involved and changes things to be an exact way that he wants to see things. He doesn't trust his employees and would rather spread himself even thinner and produce an output that fails or doesn't accomplish what it should. The group benefits package is ok but the CEO is so cheap when it comes to his employees that the company only pays for half the monthly premium and charges the other half back to the employee. Vacation entitlement is legally 2 weeks but everyone is encouraged to take more, at least 3 weeks. But if you do as you are encouraged and take more then 2 weeks, when you are leaving the company you will be clawed back $ for vacation taken but not earned. Again, the CEO will take any opportunity to exploit his employees financially. There is real no concrete mission and vision for the company, at least in everyone's mind except the CEO's. He jumps from initiative to initiative to initiative, from project to project to project. Nothing gets completed properly before everyone's attention is forced onto the next big thing he personally has an interest in. Nothing is done in the way of market research and the existing products can hardly be considered to be commercialized because there is basically no sales strategy in place. The products only seem to work half the time and when there are failures, an insane amount of time and money is thrown at putting a band-aid solution in place temporarily. The CEO has a tendency to act in desperation when such things occur with knee-jerk reactions. It is a wonder that the entire industry doesn't see 2G Robotics as a joke (or does it?). There is a lot of uncertainty right now within the company and no one feels any sort of job security. Further, there is a sense of distrust about anything the CEO says as well as his ability to manage this company.