Pros
- The people and teams here are where it's at. Wonderful coworkers and many good teams are really the reason to continue working here. - Management seems to finally be getting back on track.
Cons
- Insurance is a joke at the Clearwater location, and we now have to pay for insurance for the first time since the company's inception. Insurance rep informed us that Chicago employees pay more for insurance than us when I asked, and the Clearwater rates will be further bumped up within a year or two to match Chicago. It would be nice if management was transparent about this. Not only is this not fair to the Chicago folks but we were told the fee would be nominal for Clearwater (which is actually really subjective) and if it's going up anyway, why are you being misleading? - Terrible experience with our new insurance overall. Constant claim rejections and denied authorizations. My doctor's office has told me repeatedly that they are a nighmare to deal with. If your doctor tells you that you need a service, and the insurance says you don't, you get to pay out of pocket. Doesn't matter how urgent your procedure is or how much pain you're in. My recommendation to our employees: Please don't get sick. You'll be better off paying $800 a month to pay for your own personal insurance if you do. Can we please go back to something that is not garbage? - Our PTO plan lost the option for cashing out your time and instead of rolling over to the next year if there's PTO time left, we now have a use-it-or-lose-it policy (which is illegal in some states, you can look that up). Management then had the guts to inform the employees that this was for the good of the employees, to encourage them to take their vacation time. Yeah, okay. PTO is compensation, set a good example and start treating it as such. - At the first sign of the lockdown the company cut all 401K contributions through the rest of the year. - Also at the first sign of the lockdown the company cut everyone's pay (some employees still have their pay cut now, over 4 months later). - Along with the merger came the culture of no Christmas bonuses. None, zero. I don't know any other tech company that gives absolutely nothing in terms of a bonus. They haven't even tried to justify this one. They will immediately tell you that our culture is the most important thing though. - Our benefits overall are just weak. Stop comparing us to the US average. We are a TECH company, so compare us to TECH companies. Doing anything else is deceptive. How can you retain talent if people work here for a while, gain experience, and then realize they can just move on to somewhere else that will simply treat them better for doing the exact same thing? You can't. - Straight from our party planning committe I was also told that management has been fighting to get rid of our Christmas parties (said parties you can read about in many of our old positive Autoloop reviews). But it's okay, they care about the culture, right? Management, if you're reading this, prove me wrong, make the party happen. And yes I realize this might be awkward since you never did something this nice for your other sites. Make it happen for them too, they deserve it. Or invite people from the other sites to come to Clearwater, we would love to have them here. Let's build that culture you keep talking about. If you care, the options are there. Sadly there is plenty more, but I think this is enough to portray the trend of the company. It's not too late to turn this ship around, but we have yet to even step on the brakes.