Vantaggi
Company is flush with cash, spends a lot on equipment, good benefits, good location
Svantaggi
They don't care about you, your health, or your family. I worked there for 5 years. The CEO took me under his wing and made me feel close and like family. For my last year on the job I was suffering from severe clinical depression and anxiety. They had a meeting with me about it in November 2015. I admitted my issues and they told me they "would do whatever they could to help me get better". June 2016 I approach the CFO/HR guy and admit to him I am still struggling with my health issues. I say that my mother has cancer and I would like to take anywhere from 1 to 3 months off as a sabbatical to get my own mental health in check and spend time with my mother who is fighting cancer. July 2016 the CEO calls me in and tells me "we are letting you go". WITH NO SEVERANCE PACKAGE. This company went from "We will do whatever we can to help you with your depression" to "We are firing you essentially because of your depression and no severance package to help you" I wasn't even some random employee. I grew with the company from 9 employees to 50+. I went from $15 an hour as a temp to a salaried position with my own office. Over that time the CEO and CTO took me under their wing. They made me feel like a friend. They hooked me up with tickets to events. I went out drinking with them (well the CTO). The CEO let me borrow stuff for a vacation I was taking. While I was there, I felt a pride thinking I was part of some family. Well families stick together and help eachother through bad times. And while I was stupid to think a company could be a family to me, you still shouldn't work for a company that acts like they support you then does absolutely nothing to actually support you when you need it. I should have known. I watched multiple people with depression get fired from there over the years. I watched one of the original 4 employees that started the company get fired for essentially being depressed. If you work here don't get close to ANYONE in management or above. Don't trust them. Also DO NOT work here if you are clinically depressed. They will NOT support you beyond the health insurance you get for being there. Additionally apart from all this depression stuff, they pay you terribly. I was the ONLY IT staff as the company grew from 9-50+. I was functioning as a Systems Admin and a Network Admin while also having to do low-level IT work AND QA work for the first 3 years. I was getting paid at an entry level IT desk job rate for 3 of the 5 years. For the last 2 years I had decent pay but it was still significantly lower than the national average for Network or System Admins. I also asked for an intern or more IT staff multiple times over the years and was never given any. They had me working on highly important servers and network infrastructure while simultaneously demanding I work IT help desk and set up new PCs and equipment all for under $60,000 a year. This is the kind of stuff you'd expect from a non-tech company that doesn't know any better. They knew what they were doing. They knew they were saving large amounts of money by having me be the only IT/Sys/Net staff - AND - underpaying me on top of it.