Vantaggi
Good location – close to freeways, shopping centers and the beach. Plenty places to eat or get some shopping done before hitting rush hour traffic. This can be an “ok” transitional job if you need terms like “Healthcare”, “Cloud Provider”, etc., on your resume. The benefits, 401k, pay, Educational Reimbursement, vacation, holidays, etc. are respectable for a small, technology services company in Southern Ca. Decent co-workers that try to be supportive.
Svantaggi
Some of the negative review are a bit unfair. I mean, the company did hire you, didn't they? There are also some "positive" reviews which seem a bit too good to be true. The company has limited resources, aging technology and subject to regulatory oversight due to Protected Health Information. The upper management team is protective of proprietary code and knowledge, which is fine, but get ready for intense roadblocks, micro-managing and the demoralizing process of filling out timecards. Getting anything accomplished is a tedious, miserable and artery -hardening process. My advice is to take the easiest and most noticeable projects because, this is a cloud service company working with Protected Health Information, which means processes, requirements gathering, decision making move at a relatively slow pace with a lot of paranoid second guessing. Be prepared for gaps in administrative/technical processes due to employee turnover. Additional duties will be dropped in your lap and you will become “noticeable” for all the wrong reasons. In order to keep up, you will put in extra hours which decreases the “pay to quality of life ratio”. You will deal with burnout, frustration. At the worst point of the process there will be meetings as to why you and your department are “running behind”, so get ready to bite your tongue and take it, because there will be an HR Rep there to squelch any honest feedback. Hey, if you need a paycheck, then take the job, but look at it as a “temporary gig”. Does this make it different from most other companies this size? Not really, but the workplace culture has a lot of room to improve.