Pros
Individual contributors were great to work with. These people made the company run day in and day out and made it bearable.
Cons
I used to gush about how much I loved this company and I used to recommend it to all my friends who were looking for jobs.The company has gone downhill and is losing talented people fast. Here's why. The company culture was so different just a few years ago. COVID really showed the company's true colors. Relias shoves DEI down your throat (not in an authentic way at all) and panders to every single "current thing" that is trendy to care about, dropping it the moment it becomes irrelevant. For example, in 2021, the current thing to care about was racism. To fit in and show how much they cared about DEI, they implemented a $3,500 referral bonus for new hires who identified as diverse, and only the standard $2,500 bonus for non diverse people. Now it looks like they quietly got rid of that ridiculous incentive. Like literally, what genius geenlit that one? They also required COVID vaccines for a couple months and then quietly got rid of that requirement too because COVID isnt relevant anymore. Then, they recently told everyone that they would now require 30 in office days per quarter because no one wanted to come in voluntarily. So basically felt like a punishment to the people who actually were productive working at home and didnt want to spend hours commuting for literally no reason. They also sprung this on the entire company with no warning, with smiling faces just wanting us to "embrace" the new policy. Are you kidding me? The company right now is pushing "showing face" in the office over actual productivity. I'm glad upper management who lives 5 minutes away from the office and makes over 5x my salary finds no issue with going in to the office all the time...but some of us live way farther than that and have to pay for gas. Not to mention, the pathetic 3% COLA raise didn't come close to helping with inflation, so add insult to injury there. Here's an awful measly "raise", and now you have to waste even more of your money coming in to the office for absolutely no reason. People will LOVE that! The company culture is hanging by a thread and more and more people are seeing the light and getting out. Individual contributors who actually make the company run every day get measly 3% bonuses each year, or better yet, laid off! Lay offs just occurred today in the content department with absolutely no notice, a pathetic severance, and basically a shove out the door. They obviously overhired during COVID like every other tech company and is now forcing people out. Upper leadership doesnt give a flying F about you and their actions over the past year really speaks to that. Relias should be absolutely ashamed at how "leadership" has handled the past few years. Get your act together or this ship is going to sink completely.