-Work-life balance is non-existent. I am literally working all.the.time. Vacations are rarely taken. I have noticed that if my manager does not see me logged on and green on a weekend, the following week I get dumped a bunch of projects since apparently I have “capacity”. We have winter and summer shut downs but I have always worked through them so they are not that helpful
-There is a LOT of micromanaging - this may also be manager/department specific though. But from my experience micromanaging was very commonplace
-Decision-making is slow and inefficient. This goes back to the several layers of micromanagement.
-Career progression is tricky. Hard to know how you can really advance to the next level
-I have had some bad, mean managers. It is disappointing that they think they can treat others in a derogatory manner and the company is allowing such an environment to prevail
