Vantaggi
The employees at HostGator are honestly really great (employees, not leadership). The employees make working at HostGator a fun place to work, and you'll make a lot of friends for outside of work. The medical benefits are good. The health insurance is cheap, and you get a ton of time off. Hourly employees get three weeks off their first year and salaried employees get four weeks. The interview process went smooth, and the recruiter was honest with all of my questions.
Svantaggi
To be honest, HostGator is not a great place to work. The demands are high, but you'll get very little support along the way. The metrics to get bonuses are very unattainable. You will always be treated like a number. They offer extra benefits and sell the extra benefits, but they're really a joke. For example, the food they serve for lunch everyday is catered by one of the supervisors on staff, and it's not cooked and handled properly. It's not that the food is cheap, but that it's not cooked properly in the Houston location. Also, the workers are not really heard. The top leadership are very young, and they do not associate with the workers. They're very out of touch with the current workloads and demands of the job. They say things like, "when I took calls..." but they haven't taken calls in years. The job is very, very different now. It's very difficult to understand the attendance polices and other policies, because the policies are not written down. When I e-mail HR or the leadership about it, i do not get a response. I do not feel like I am a valued employee. When I mention the workload my concerns are not heard. The pay is crazy low for IT, as well.