Good Brand to work at - Recensione dipendente - Marketing Manager presso Cannondale

Coworkers are also friends. Good opportunities for development, growth and mentorship. Collaborative and open communication across global teams. Trustworthy leadership.

The "work hard, play hard" culture is real. May not suit those who prefer a structured and predictable daily routine.

There are many pros to working here. Especially if cycling is truly your passion. Recruitment: From the very beginning the recruitment process was seamless and an overall very good experience. You can expect great and timely communication throughout the interview process. Hats off there! Coworkers: Mostly, everyone here is friendly. Average age is on the younger side and there's really no pretentiousness, judginess or weird vibes. Products and discounts: You get to experience early access to new products along with receiving a very fair discount on bicycles as an employee. Work-life balance: The company encourages a good-work life balance that seemed genuine as well. If you're a hybrid employee, or live local to the office they offer lunch rides, and various events after work hours. Compensation: Role dependent, but on average compensation I'd say is somewhat fair, I wouldn't say it's outstanding, but by no means the worst in the industry.

Before I begin I'd like to make something abundantly clear. I want Cannondale to succeed. There are many hardworking employees that truly care about the work they put into this company. This feedback is meant to be constructive, not defamatory. Training: There might as well be none. It's borderline hilarious, actually. Although this may be dependent on the role, my experience involved being handed a 2-3 page "training schedule". More than half of the individuals included on this schedule had no idea they were on the calendar to meet with me. This made for a few awkward conversations and re-scheduled meetings. Outside of the "training schedule", if I had any questions or concerns while working, a large chunk of the time nobody directly within my department knew the answers. This led to a game of asking multiple people, being re-directed multiple times, and ultimately being left frustrated and without the information I needed. Not ideal or efficient by any means. Strange team environment: If you like to hunker down and work independently, it may be mistaken for not fitting in with your team, not contributing to the team, or even not being a good culture fit. This is even more prominent if you're a remote employee. Management seems to like to make assumptions about employees without doing their due diligence to properly investigate. I found it fairly easy to find yourself in a bind during performance reviews without proper evidence, reason or clarity. If you're not constantly checking in on your own accord with management, be careful. You might as well not be working at all in their eyes. Lack of clarity or direct feedback: Whether it be positive or negative feedback, you'll usually be fed corporate jargon with little to no clarity on specifically why you're receiving it. It's clear management doesn't feel comfortable giving direct and concise feedback overall and often times they'll find ways to make you read between the lines. Because of this, these conversations are not only confusing but counterproductive. Egos: Management generally had far too much confidence in their decision making skills. They'll decide to release crucial information and urgent technical documents to the team when THEY decided WE needed them. This left many team members to find their own solutions, leading to backlash from our dealers and other coworkers as a result. Management typically claimed to be unaware of the need for this information, all while multiple team members were screaming from the rooftops for months. Situations like this have also caused a many awkward and borderline hostile team meetings. Job security: If you're a cyclist, or keeping up with the industry, you'll already know it's challenged. As of right now the teams within the company are getting smaller and smaller, with layoffs and position eliminations growing. This isn't necessarily entirely Cannondales fault, but still a major con to consider. Product quality, and QC: Cannondale has had more than a few issues with specific bike models. These issues range from design flaws, component flaws, and electrical issues. This has led to a large dip in both dealer and customer morale. Even if you're not working in either the product or sales teams, these kind of issues will affect the entire company across all departments. One way or another, these issues will catch up with you regardless of where you're working within this company. With low dealer and customer morale comes a rapidly declining employee morale. Little to no career advancement: Even prior to the declining industry, roles rarely open up within the company. Unless a new role is created for you or in general, odds are is you will stay in your position for quite some time. If a miracle happens and a position you're interested does open up, you will be told that you must be employed with the company for 1 year in order to be considered. You'll be told this all while your coworker with only 8 months of tenure happens to receive this position instead...A little odd.