Vantaggi
Remote, flexible schedule, decent PTO policy, decent benefits, stipend for home office, stipend for working at communal office spaces. Culture was decent.
Svantaggi
I was kept as a temp for over a year, continually promised to get hired on as permanent but it didn't happen for over a year. As a temp I was able to have very minimal PTO and benefits, but my pay way very low. I have no bereavement time off so when my grandmother died of covid I had to take unpaid days off. Additionally during my year as a temp I accomplished the amount of work that would have gotten me promoted but as soon as I was given permanent employment, they erased everything I did as a temp. So I was a year behind my peers in terms of career advancement which obviously greatly affected my ability to take part in bigger projects and my pay was consistently lower than my peers even though I had the exact same amount of training and was performing at their level. And then when I finally was able to be promoted properly, they let me go in company wide lay offs 2 weeks later. This company spends their money on fancy offices and execs for appearances instead of actually valuing their employees. Since October of 2021 there have been at least 4 rounds of lay offs. Overall, I enjoyed my time at ChowNow, I had a great team and loved the people I worked with. However, I can't speak as highly for the company as a whole.