Pros
Good pay and decent benefits Good extras like stock purchase matching, benefits for fitness, language courses Some very intelligent managers with good leadership skills
Cons
Hiding behind good pay to create a sense of "Agnico the Good" 60+ years of distance from reality, they only see what they choose to see Racism, nepotism, ageism (and that goes both ways), cronyism runs rampant The ‘in crowd’ is all French and they are the chosen few who get advancement opportunities; moved around to learn/grow while the small group of experienced workers watch and do the work Takes years to be accepted/trusted (unless you’re French), no career paths in head office – lots of smart people with nowhere to go for years…. New ideas get quashed under ‘that’s not how we do it here’ Bad employees kept because they don’t want to ever let anyone go, believe they need to guarantee people a livelihood even when they are low performers – a huge impact on morale At corporate people are just numbers/headcount - CEO likes to emphasize that and that success is only achieved if you arrive at it the way he did. Stated that not every department is equal – so some groups are just more important than others. They talk about making change, but leaders hide behind what they tout as 'culture' and 'values' as a shield to really seeing what they need to fix and then actually fixing it. Lack of true change is the only constant.
