Pros
In the past people put in a lot of effort in to help each other, be pleasant and professional, and working hard together! I used to enjoy my job so much!
Cons
Where to start? OK, How about focusing on money first, last, and in between too, since that’s all the owners (Griffin Investments) and Paul Orzeske and Raj Aroura seem to ever care about anyway. Too many mergers in a short time threw too many different cultures together until it quickly became a cutthroat, competitive environment between all “ legacy firms” as they teach us to call the warring factions. But they gave everybody the same lapel pins with a company logo on them, so we must be a team, right? LOL Some REALLY costly purchases have been made, such as a really old, obsolete type of “proprietary software” that nobody can really figure out how to monetize, and a real low-end “forensic division” that simply consists of a bunch of fumbling, back woods ambulance chasers doing insurance investigations work for peanuts. The execs and investors got sold a huge bill of goods on that acquisition, and now there are way too many meetings trying to get other divisions excited and trained in “forensics work”. Nobody with a degree from a halfway decent college wants their name attached to ambulance chasing lawyers! This leaves many of us with good ole common sense, and pride in our engineering careers, scratching our heads, wondering what the execs are thinking? Slick-talking management on conference calls trying way too hard to sell us how great the new improved combined company is while they cut our benefits, and actually want people to work from home so they can shut down the expensive offices they have finally realized they can’t afford after paying so many execs to leave, and constantly funding huge expensive parties for executives, while telling the rest of us to cut back on in person client services for our core clientele.
