Hemorrhaging talent and now I get it
Pros
A lot of really great people working to make the culture fun. Health benefits are fine. It pays the bills.
Cons
Lip service to pretty much everything. Empty catch phrases. No upward momentum. They promote people based on personal relationships instead of education and experience. No joke, 20 years of specialized training gets less respect than someone with 0 training but with the company in different positions for 20 years. I was literally told by HR that you could be the best, most accomplished person in the room, say and do everything right, but the company is so relationship based, they will not trust you, listen to you or care. Which begs the question, why hire new people at all? Senior leadership is not willing to learn about new fields and what reasonable expectations look like. There can also be huge salary disparity. We recently learned that one person on our team is paid over $25k less for the same exact job as the rest of us. HR is also a joke when it comes to discrimination and support for those with special needs. If anything, they are very belittling, condescending and overall disrespectful.