Vantaggi
Great company to work for if you enjoy company politics.
Svantaggi
They only promote and acknowledge people who play into the politics. The majority of people in management positions are either people who somehow failed up or came in via a merger and are too bewildered by the cult-like company culture to do anything helpful so instead they wait out their contract and leave. The management often claims credit for ideas that are not theirs only to later have credit stolen from them by their managers anyway. The C-Level team is oblivious to reality and wouldn't know leadership if it bit them in the pants. The CEO gives moronic locker room pep-talk style speaches that are so full of church talk and attempts to be inspirational that they make absolutely no sense. We once had an emergency all hands meeting where the CEO tried to outline his new strategy. All we got was an incomprehensable twenty minute speech where he told us that the C-Level suite had spent the last 3 months coming up with something he called "The Double-Barrelled Turbo Plan." They literally had a skit and a dance routine to announce it. That's it. He told us the name. Did a dance and never once outlined what was in the plan. No strategy. No actionable tactics. Just a ton of pomp and circumstance. Most of us all left the meeting comfused with the exception of the management team who lauded him as a genius... These guys are sitting on a literal gold mine but have no clue how to properly move into it into the 21st century. The leadership team is actively sabotaging the company's growth trajectory and anyone brought on to right the ship is immediately treated as a heretic if they disagree. You may think I am being hyperbolic here, but I assure you I am not. This isn't even the tip of the iceburg. It was much worse. If your company is bought by them you will see what I am talking about. Especially after your first all hands company meeting (read Church Sermon) in Winston-Salem. They even have a church band...
