Vantaggi
Catered lunches, multi-cultural employee base, generally flexible work hours
Svantaggi
Messaging regarding success and growth was often spoken in praise when addressing the entire company, but when addressed at the department level, everything was bleak and/or on fire. Strategies constantly changed, which is typical of a startup, but the time and resources allocated to these strategies were rarely enough to see any sort of momentum or real growth. With the company being smaller, you would think inter-department cohesiveness and communication would be better, but many times certain departments were adversarial at best. Additionally, many of the department leaders lacked some of the most rudimentary leadership skills and had a disproportionate level of self-importance. From a product standpoint, over half of the features and benefits that were advertised and marketed to clients simply did not exist or function correctly, with little to no emphasis on rectifying this. There was an over-emphasis on employee engagement with frivolous titles, committees, outings, and events, while resources to actually drive the business forward were spread thin or omitted entirely. While I didn't personally experience this, I saw as time and time again when constructive feedback, concerns, or criticism was voiced, those individuals were punished and/or eliminated. This could be a good starter job for a fresh college grad, but would encourage this person to keep an open mind and not develop bad work habits, as many of the practices and strategies at DocASAP would be detrimental in any organized, structured, and actively healthy corporate environment. Oh, and lastly, the company is very obviously trying to sell as soon as it's able to.