Pros
There are a lot of great people working here that you wouldn’t mind being friends with during off-work hours. Mostly everyone that I have encountered here has been passionate about they do and willing to teach and learn new things. Nice office building at company HQ in Pennsylvania but other locations around the world tend to be in need of some refurnishing from what I have seen. Benefits are fairly competitive with companies in the Lehigh Valley area but they go up every year and things have been taken away from us too… more on that in the negatives.
Cons
Most positives are completely clouded by the overwhelming lack of direction. Morale is down the tubes and it has been an endless decline since being acquired by a private equity firm in 2010 and a bad implementation of SAP in 2012. Currently a bad situation overall. Turnover at the top level of management has been to the tune of 3-4 CEOs in the past few years. And that is just the CEO level... doesn't include any of the other top level managers that have been in and out which is hard to keep track of at this point. What's worse is that customers have openly commented about how dysfunctional we are. Sad. Everyone is fearing being next on our list of layoffs. Sad situation when nobody feels comfortable asking questions of management about the direction of the company and even sadder when nobody cares to ask anymore because they are tired of hearing the same line of nothing. There are no paths for career development for any of the good people that we do have left working here after the revolving door stops spinning for a little bit. There are few incentives to hold out hope for something good to come especially with big cuts made to our 401k recently and severance as others have noted. These are decisions that the company is making with few tangible reasons for making them because again we are being told a whole lot of nothing lately. In the case of the change to the severance policy, our HR department sent this out along with a lot of other hard to understand information all attached in one email. This was no less than two weeks before laying people off over this past summer and before that we had a layoff at Christmas. Hope someone is smart to realize that the decisions we are making along these lines are not helping morale in the least bit which as noted by others is at an all-time low. Not sure we can get much lower. Agree with previous statements that we are on the edge of something happening to the company but nobody is saying what. Upper management is stuck in an endless loop of planning. So... doesn’t anyone know our direction by now? The only people getting rich are the consultants that are in and out like a revolving door. All of this makes up a very sad work environment that I am not sure can get much worse. Nobody knows what is going to happen in the next few months to a year from now but it can't go on much longer as is. All signs from what we see point in the direction of a short term outlook. Really discouraging.