I've been here for over 5 years now and perhaps my honeymoon phase is over but I am starting to see the ugly side of this company.
-First and foremost, pay here is egregious. I get that it is academia and non-for-profit, but the company wastes money on so much food and free coffee (no joke, there is a coffee trike the company most likely pays $$$$$$$$$ for) and weird looking furniture that they cycle through (I have no idea if the ones they toss out will ever get used again)... If you are trying to be like Google, pay us like Google. It's frankly insulting to watch money getting wasted.
-There is not a lot of room for career development. Promotions are stingy and you literally have to fight for them. Bosses say "it's an HR thing" as an excuse. HR say "it's your boss's decision." Hmmm....
-People without advanced degrees get treated like garbage. But I guess that is common in science.
-I don't think HR cares about the happiness of their employees, I think they do anything they can to protect the people on top. There are so many complaints about some people in management (abusiveness, condescending tones, racism, sexism, etc), but they don't care. Instead I believe they "coach" you out of the company and keep the horrible people.
-I think that there is fear in the work culture. Adding to the point above, it's to the point where people are so afraid that they don't speak out when they are getting abused because they are scared they will lose their jobs.
-There is an awful balance of male vs female ratio. They try to be all progressive but who they decide to hire speaks volumes. Take a look at their upper management/director/PI/computational positions...many of them are male.