Vantaggi
Pay is at or above market, benefits are ok, CEO is lenient with time off
Svantaggi
Save yourself the letdown of thinking you have a true leader when you decide to apply for this company. If you want to advance your career in Sales or Operations by building something from the ground up, they are in desperate need but consider the below: The CEO is very smart, was previously successful but filters many, if not all the, details through himself even though he is busy, creating a gigantic bottleneck; everything had to go through him. The mentality is akin to "I do things better than anyone else, so I have to do/check it all." This leads to missed deadlines and empty promises to the employees saying "I'll get to it today, I promise" or "I'll have it by the end of the week." It was hard to watch the US business office tactfully walk around the missed deadlines. At what point do empty promises become lies? He was quick to insult clients on their current work, future aspirations, and their questions when they had when decided to engage with TeraCode which seems very ironic. The TeraCode website was not updated for multiple years, there are no standard processes, the information/collateral given out is vague, and there are no long-term employees except for the one other person listed on the website. At what point does "fudging" the numbers become a lie? It's hard to avoid when you seemingly don't have concrete data or a solid way to measure success aside from hearsay which you will find at this company. Take a meeting with them and ask for some metrics. Looking on LinkedIn and other places, you can see how difficult it is for the company to hold down US employees consistently. The business and sales office has gone through nearly 10 people in the past 3 years...for a staff of <5 people. The turnover rate speaks volumes on it own; if the company is so good and there are so many positive reviews, why wouldn't you stay or is it that employees were pushed out? If you really want to consider applying for this company, reach out to he previous non-VP level people who worked there. Unfortunately you'll have to read between the lines of their message as they may be contractually bound to only say positive comments.