Pros
At the beginning of this year, there were many exciting things planned for the Insight team and the merger of the two companies. However, after March, the remote working situation this year devolved into a toxic workplace culture.
Cons
While many amazing things are going on within the Insight Marketing dept, your individual manager’s mood has the final say in whether you rise or become the scapegoat. The marketing team has well over 150 people collaborating in separate silos on each area of marketing. This creates a wide range of management styles and degree of leadership skills. In my case, I drew the short straw and was on the receiving end of some strong retaliation and personal resentment. When I reported this to HR and a senior manager, they took no action to resolve it. Despite this, I attempted to persevere through the long days of 10-hour remote work and contributed heavily to larger investments for our department. But these contributions to keep the product vendors, or “partners” as they call them at Insight, was not enough. There were no SOP or SLA procedures to keep these vendors in line. Without guidelines, the team was a never-ending circus of trying to maintain expectations externally while begging your internal team to push through projects last minute to secure funding. Working here was exhausting, stressful, and the management team had no sympathy for this problem as the situation worsened. When I addressed this, management routinely told me things like “this is what we expected of your position,” “we need only the best on our team, maybe this isn’t for you,” and my favorite- “you should just get a thicker skin.” Plus many other gems that HR never bothered to inquire on further. While I had high hopes for a promising career here at Insight, they can continue to expect a high turnover rate until they resolve issues like these.
