Vantaggi
Great place to brush up on your office politics in a highly dysfunctional atmosphere
Svantaggi
Due to the toxic environment there is an extremely high employee churn rate. When asked about it in a company meeting, the CEO shrugged and said he expects people to leave so he doesn't get worked up about it. This "don't care" attitude is abundant in the company culture. Each quarter the CEO needs a scapegoat to blame for his failures so some department takes the hit. Good employees are let go or demoted, others are shuffled around, all so the CEO can tell the board he's addressing the problem. Get this: in just over a year they had 100 percent turnover at the VP level. HR, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Product, Engineering, IT -- every single VP left the company. Most of them were pushed out by the CEO. This is far from a stable environment, much less an optimal one. The company claims "Openness" as one of its values so imagine my surprise when I was abruptly let go for "performance reasons" with not a single written or verbal warning in my entire two years with the company. My supervisor even admitted in front of the HR rep that he had not had a single conversation with me about my performance. Not once. All my projects were on track for on-time delivery. Oh, and funny thing, they're moving forward with the next phase of the project I proposed and defined, so they admittedly like my work. But they're too cowardly to even have an honest conversation about it. Don't expect to be treated fairly here, much less treated in a professional manner. Not only will you not be given a valid reason when you're let go, they won't even bother to discuss your performance with you. I sat through fifteen hours of mandatory Crucial Conversations training. Number of actual conversations? Zero. Before taking a job here carefully consider the negative feedback from employees who know what the company is really like. And realize the positive reviews here are from employees who simply haven't been stabbed in the back by the company -- yet. But hey, maybe I'm being too negative. If you're the type of person who enjoys office politics, a toxic work environment, dishonesty, hidden agendas, and dysfunctional management at every level -- this may just be your dream job.