Vantaggi
- Everyone gets his own office - Free lunch every Friday - Open-door policy - Pay is OK but there is always a need to negotiate. Pay is usually biased towards degree-level and does not consider actual experience or expertise. - There are decent benefits (health care, 401k with matching, and other programs) - Madison is a really nice city - The office is quiet and calm - Offers standing desks
Svantaggi
- There have been many people leaving the company over the past year (roughly 10% of total employees). Employees have low-confidence in the company? - Vice-presidents of company are engineers and not CEO's and are not business-saavy - Majority of managers are incompetent, closed-minded, and biased. It is difficult to be heard or present ideas without being disregarded/dismissed - There seem to be a lot of issues going on behind the scenes with no transparency. It is unsettling. - Clear discrimination of those who are considered "inferior". If you don't have a higher-degree, you will not be respected even if you are an expert in your field. - There are no Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) or equivalent. You need to learn for yourself and determine what you think your job should be. - There are performance reviews but you are not really given constructive criticisms so you don't know if you are doing well or not. If you get a small raise (<5%) then you can assume you have been performing adequately. But there is no conversation about ways to improve job performance (this could be due to previous point of not having clear job descriptions) - Sometimes decisions to push releases seem erratic and not well thought out.