Carter's reviews

There is no room for movement and there are a lot of politics. Reminded me much of high school clicks and fighting to be in the "in" crowd. They don't recognize hard work and most of the time if you do well the credit is given to those higher up in the political chain. If you have a young family you won't see them often due to the "required overtime" and they are not flexible with sick kids. Sad for a "children's" company. People are disposable.

There is very little personal or career development. Job descriptions are hard to find. Performance goals, objectives and reviews are very weak (although they are working on that). There is a lot of working in silos. You would be surprised that everyone is working towards the same company goal at times. Upward mobility or movement within the company is rarely seen. Communication top down and bottom up is not great, but they are working on it. There is only 1 female top executive in the company. From VP up it is mainly male, under that is probably 75% - 80% female dominate. The executive team's claim to fame is that they have been together for over 13 years. That is changing since the CEO retired in August. Since then you can feel there are problems and changes going on at the executive level. Top people have left or been fired and there have been words of additional key player departures. A recent restructure reduced the total company by over 25% was very drastic after a positive 2008 performance in this economy. Poor decisions are being made to keep Wall Street happy and clearly tells the employees that "family" is not a priority.