Pros
I was at CareerBuilder for over 17 years and over that time, I was able to work with some amazing people. We truly believed in the company and we all had an active part in helping move the needle. The passionate people is what drove our organization forward.
Cons
Honestly I am not sure where to start on this one. Everything changed when we were purchased by private equity last year. Some of the policy changes were needed; that isn't the problem. The new COO likes to laugh and say that everyone that has left is because we can't handle the change. For those of us that have been at CB for 10+ years, we KNOW how to deal with change and we actually don't like the status quo. We have all left (or are looking to leave) because Apollo only cares about cutting costs and we are not people to them. We are just numbers. They came in with a wrecking ball and had no idea what they were doing or who we were as an organization. How about hiring a CIO that doesn't have experience running a software dept nor does he have any idea what agile is? How great is it to know when your CIO is in the office because you can hear him yelling at some poor soul in his office with the door shut as you walk down the hall? The culture we all knew and loved is gone - it has been replaced with fear. We used to be a family; now people are turning on each other to save themselves. Irina is young and clearly has something to prove and she has no problems threatening people and laughing about it. Power hungry and ignorant. Everything is just so sad to see what it has become.