Pros
Good breadth of experience, good colleagues around, and it’s stops there.
Cons
Senior Management at the Hercules location is a toxic group of friends who make decisions based on emotions. If you’re not on their good side, it feels like you’re on a list. They don’t attempt to make any effort to help employees find their calling / niche within the business, it feels like set up for failure, sink or swim. One manager has particularly made many junior analysts cry and quit and no change seems to be made, she’s still around because everyone here is institutionalized 20+ years or are family . Pay is absolutely dismal for junior staff for living in the Bay Area, combined with all this, turnover is beyond the roof. And they seem to not care about any of this, just the inner circle of senior “leadership”. Response during pandemic has been as expected, barely any flexibility for WFH given during these tough times due to many job lay offs. How this location will stick around in the near future, beats me.