Vantaggi
*Senior Management is as transparent as they can be, which helps a lot in maintaining trust through turbulent times *A lot of growth opportunity *Leadership allows you to be human. At least mine does. I have heard other leaders might not. But I've seen someone on my floor go from having panic attacks when being asked to learn a new area, to being a lead trainer in the area, all because the leaders in the area understood enough about mental health to know how to support them without making them feel bad about a response outside of their control, and didn't write them off because of it. I've seen them continue to offer opportunity and encouragement to everyone, which has allowed us all to grow in confidence. *Nice PTO policy, decent benefits, profit share bonus check, good retirement *LGBTQIA+ friendly, which is rare in a manufacturing company *When we have really important messages from senior management, or something very important is being implemented, they've brought in someone who spoke Spanish to translate for anyone that might struggle understanding. That was really nice to see. *My leadership team constantly makes me feel appreciated. I can take on too much and get burnt out, but I've never felt they didn't truly appreciate what I've taken on. And when I needed to take on less for a bit, they heavily encouraged and supported it. *When I was frustrated with something, I wanted to share it with my leaders, but I didn't know how to say it professionally. My leaders took me into the office and said to not worry about having the right words, but to just talk normally, and they helped rephrase it professionally for me. It was really nice to not have to worry about how I came across, because they created a safe setting for me to just talk openly, away from everyone else. They made me feel appreciated for stating my concerns, even when the concerns included feedback for them. I trust them.
Svantaggi
*Pay transparency. Job descriptions used to state the 'pay level', but they removed that years ago. So if you are applying for something, you don't know if you'll be making enough to cover your expenses or not until you get the offer. Unless you ask ahead, which doesn't come across well. This could be easily fixed. *"Merit raises". I got a higher review score than someone else from a different department, but their percentage raise was higher than mine last year. I don't understand that. I also don't much care for having a leader tell me they recommend not discussing my raise, because it can lead to drama. No one should have anything to hide. I wanted to note that in recent years, when I've gotten raises, they haven't given that spiel and I appreciate that. So I think that might have already changed. Transparency creates trust and accountability. *Pay structure. I have been in my role a very long time. They changed the pay structure. I was above middle. In the new pay structure, they moved everyone back down. People who had just started the role, that were coming to me for support and training were then getting paid simalar to me. We were told the merit reviews would adjust for these. But (see above), clearly it hasn't really. *I've seen them remove positions, give the entire workload to another person, and when the person struggles and asks for support, the support they got was pulling someone off the floor to help. The person the pulled off the floor though doesn't get the previous job title or pay of the position, even though they are doing the job. They clearly love it though and don't seem to mind. They do fantastic though, and i'd really love to see them get properly compensated for it. I think it will happen though. Sometimes a-dec is just slow to catch up. *Band-aids. When there is an issue with anything other than new product, it's REALLY difficult to get the proper support to fix root cause. Especially if we need engineering support. They are so focused on new product, which is amazing, but we need more support on truly fixing the ongoing issues with our older products so we can stop using our band-aid fixes. More sustaining engineers, more test and cal, and more tooling people please.
