Pros
Working from home, the people you work with, what it used to be
Cons
What to say. I loved the place when I started and writing this makes me sad. I’m not naive to how corporations work, but this one operates as a master manipulator. They threw a lot of money at “culture” for a long time, hired recklessly, bragged about their balance sheet, and then announced layoffs in May. They said 14% was very intentional, they chose that number so they wouldn’t have to do it again. And here comes September where they’ve laid off 20% more and dissolved another two or three teams that they didn’t call layoffs. So we’re talking probably 36% reduction in force in 4 months. That should make anyone nervous. They unceremoniously dumped some of their most valuable, tenured employees. Kept a couple teams in limbo for almost three weeks while they decided what to do with them. Sent their guest service team offshore and told the current team working that job that they could work until middle of October until the offshore team is trained, or collect severance early if they are “unhappy and want to just quit now.” Decent enough offer until you realize that the employees who took them up on it won’t qualify for unemployment. Evolve is not a hospitality company. They are a sales driven call center with departments that don’t even know what the others are doing. They are disorganized and reckless at best and dishonest at worst. I’m sorry to have to write this. I wish I still believed in them. Hopefully they can get back on track but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone in its current state.
