Strong leadership, meaningful mission, and exciting tech innovation - Director Covista Employee Review

Covista is an organization that has a clear vision and does well in actively pursuing that vision. Covista is willing to adapt, try new things, and trusts its employees to find success. When Covista has fallen short of goals, they have been honest about it, quickly pivoted to address those areas, and then celebrate when we achieve goals. Overall - I am very happy here at Covista. My favorite part of working here is the people. Covista has a culture in which care isn't a buzzword, but is practiced.

I do wish Covista was more relaxed with RTO expectations. I am not angry about it, and generally am in favor for an in office experience, but wish it was not 4 days a week. 3 days a week feels right. This is a very small 'con' as generally, I am very pleased with Covista.

great benefits - health insurance, 6% 401k match, unlimited PTO (may have changed this recently) excellent people - worked with several colleagues both in my department and adjacent.

abysmal leadership at the very top levels (major disconnect): decisions from the highest up at the company are made to cut costs in the short-term (batches of surprise layoffs) without considering value of the ones laid off. This not only happened to me but several others I know that were high-value contributors. They also spanned across business hierarchy (VPs, Directors, Specialists, etc.). To me this is a robotic procedure that aims to solely benefit shareholder value. "Solely" is the key word - the way it is being done is too tunnel vision and is not considering the longterm impact. the company also shifts the roles of current employees across the 5 institutions with little or no notice. I've experienced this, but also several colleagues. The roles are mostly the same, but each school is unique and has different ways of working internally. This can also be a positive as you learn more, but the learning curve takes time and it can be chaotic at first due to little/no notice time. Compensation & promotion opportunities: Starting compensation is great, but that's about it unless you get promoted. Promotion frequency varies among departments and depends on how each school performs