Pros
It's hard to overstate how much time and energy Pariveda spends on growing and understanding people. One of the most fulfilling things about my job is focusing on where each individual person on my team wants to go and figuring out the opportunities I can craft to help get them there. I enjoy how motivated and cooperative people become at Pariveda. You don't have to compete with your peers because of the way the organization is structured, so you open up a lot of room for people to just put everything on the table, which in turn helps build strong relationships. It probably sounds weird to say, but I think many of my coworkers from past projects at Pariveda actually are my friends, and we still meet up as a group and grab dinner together years after our project ended. Separately, the benefits and the work/life balance are really good, and we seem to have more opportunities for work than we can actually staff people on, which means we get to pick the more interesting projects. I really appreciate that Pariveda will turn down a project if the work isn't interesting or won't support our mission to grow our people.
Cons
It feels like we spend longer on the same project than we used to. It's not really bad, I just personally like more variety. Management could do a better job taking decisive actions and communicating their reasoning in a way that is easy for less academic people to understand. One other negative is we can be so focused on trying to help someone who may not even want the help that things can slide towards the detriment of others. It is rare, but it does happen.
