Vantaggi
Most of my colleagues are fantastic people and there are a few amazing members of leadership. Medical and Dental benefits are fair enough if you're single with no kids or serious health issues. The downtown location is surrounded by public transportation. Fairly hard to get fired regardless of performance issues.
Svantaggi
While there are a few fantastic members of the leadership team, interaction with most levels of the management and leadership team leaves you wondering how they got their jobs. About 80% are either verbally abusive to staff or prefer to cover their own backsides instead of standing up for what is right, fair, or ethical. Some of the issues in management has a lot to do with extremely outdated business practices as well as poor leadership development. There is very little understanding of what the company goals actually are and how we can help the company meet these goals. As long as I have been with the company, they seem very reactionary to what's happening to the business and are always playing catch up. Unreasonable deadlines, overworking staff due to everything being implemented at the last possible minute. There is not a lot communication and collaboration throughout the company as a whole. Departments tend to keep a tight lid on information and are seemingly unwilling to share details that will directly impact other departments. Information does move up or down the chain. The company has extremely outdated technology and does not truly appear to be interested in making processes and procedures more efficient. That is for the limited process and procedures in place. Can't image that we aren't losing even more money. Important news regarding the companies standing is found out through sources outside the company and often confirmed by the company at a much later time. Scraping the bottom of the barrel of industry compensation, which makes it hard to attract the right kind of talent. They don’t believe in matching people to the right position based on strengths or even the right aspects of a job. I’ve heard a manager tell supervisors that report to her that people are lucky they even have a job when concerns regarding overtime or workload expectations are presented. These are very tame examples of what I’ve witnessed firsthand. The few great people in leadership have a difficult battle when they do not conform to the existing leadership culture of the company.