Vantaggi
Health insurance benefits, 9/80 work week, holiday shutdown
Svantaggi
If you're a mid- or senior-level professional with years of experience, they might hire you, but there's a pretty good chance that they won't like you. The management and long-time employees are insular, and are often not interested in solving long-standing problems that cause pain and inefficiency. They simply prefer doing things the way they've always done them and not have to deal with any change that could cause temporary discomfort. They may hire you to solve some of these problems, but then fail to support any of your proposed changes. That may explain, at least in part, their high turn-over rate. They hire someone and the new hire will stick around for a year or maybe two, while they slowly come to the realization that no one, including their hiring manager, has much interest in anything they have to say. So they leave. As others have also noted, the salaries offered are way below market. The good health insurance plan and ESOP are supposed to make up for this, but I'd prefer a better paycheck and a good 401k match so I can invest in better businesses than Sechan. Sechan will probably muddle through, hand-to-mouth, with whatever contracts they manage to get. There is a retirement wave that's been going on for a few years now, as many of their long-time employees are near retirement age. It's difficult to see what will happen beyond that, although I wouldn't be surprised if they sell out of their ESOP at some point.