Vantaggi
Good benefits that start on day 1, they even offer pet insurance, flexible work from home, employee resource groups, some people are very knowledgeable and helpful, diversity and inclusion, some internal training/support exists, lots of people with long tenure that never worked anywhere else, interview was straightforward- Behavioural and technical questions & no assessments, personality tests. Appraisals no longer have ratings
Svantaggi
Not a fintech firm, reorganizations happen pretty frequently, technology innovation means learn how to use clunky O365 products and not purchase/build a proper business process management workflow tools, IT help desk sometimes takes long time to help, very manual work for some business as usual activities, nothing extra/special was offered during the pandemic other than working from home i.e. no childcare assistance, summer hours, employee appreciation/burnout prevention etc, some extra vacation days were allowed to be carried to the next year, no on-site gym, no on-site cafeteria, no on-site nurse/health center, no on-site career center, no on-site parking is available, employee must pay for parking/transportation which is very expensive in JC, very small salary increases, smaller bonuses than in other nearby firms, employees must disclose brokerage/stock accounts, go through pre-clearance to buy/sell stock even if they do not have access to sensitive data, can’t have a robinhood accounts, career mobility is left to the employee, Management doesn’t guide much, post-pandemic management decides how many days employees will go back to work, employees do not have the option to stay remote, trying to get training by external vendors is very difficult/too expensive, employees are left to do career development on their own and outside company hours sometimes