- TERRIBLE work life balance. This would be alright if the job evolved and work were interesting. See following points for details. You will work into the night several times per month
- Ideas spawned within teams are quashed by upper management. It seems backward, but in-line with big bureaucracies, that people far from the day-to-day determine the solutions to problems.
- When I started everyone on my team pursued skills to make operations smoother and more accurate. Now team members are a success if they learn the basics, and aren't challenged to do more.
- You are a cog in the wheel. I was hired with the promise of improving processes and tools. The company doesn't keep up with hiring and as a result the menial, time consuming tasks take up more of the day. This leads to less tool building, and ever more manual processes. Creativity quashed, efficiency decreasing.
-- Promotions within take as long as the hiring process. Indeed you may have the degrees and projects to show your worth, but in the end showcasing that you can be a good cog is more important than your breadth of knowledge or ability to create
- The view management has of the company seems out of line with reality. The company has aggressive hiring goals, but people leave at a fairly rapid pace.