Main cons:
- North Vancouver office location. If you don't live in NV, it's a horrific drive. The company needs to seriously consider moving their office, especially in order to attract great talent outside of NV.
- Bad employees are protected by the company, which brings employee moral down and puts more stress on certain teams in order to pick up their slack.
- Older engineers transitioning into retirement are still being put forward for work. Company needs to focus on hiring new faces who have the availability to work and training current engineers to replace those who are soon to be retired. Company also needs plans on how to manage obtaining business without employees who are supposed to be retired.
- Management needs to listen to their team more. Employees do a review of the company annually, and those results are shared company-wide. The company doesn't do much with the feedback received.
Other cons:
- Company is too European. Once a year, upper management from Scandinavia will come to train us. Although some of the training is helpful, Scandinavian/European business practices are different than in North America. They constantly try to push practices that don't translate well to North America, and don't take into consideration how North America operates.
- Benefits aren't as good as other companies (only covers 80%).
- Some people are hard to work with and lack communication skills/the ability to effectively and efficiently complete tasks.
- Many employees are overworked due to lack of employees
- Some employees gossip too much.
- Parking and all gifts from the company are taxable, including the personal wellness benefit. The only thing that isn't taxable is the professional development benefit.
- Upper management is often very slow at making decisions or even responding to emails. Especially if you're trying to get a hold of someone from our parent company in Denmark.
