- There are a handful of useless and infuriating people, but at a much lower percentage of the overall population than you'd expect at most companies
- There is no means of employee ownership, profit sharing, etc. If I were able, I would invest every cent I could spare in TORC. I strongly believe in the future of the company and would like a means of investing in it. There's a nebulous 20% clause in the employee handbook, but that's not real. It's been described as the "TORC lottery" and counting on that as an investment in your future prosperity is about as serious as buying lottery tickets.
- TORC is slowly losing a lot of the things that make working for a small company great as we grow. The powers at be seem to have little interest in continual cultivation of the great interdisciplinary and interproject cooperation that comes naturally to a small company but becomes a struggle in large organizations. It seems like managers are becoming more competitive and political putting their own projects over what makes the most overall sense for the company. Engineers can sometime get caught in the crossfire between managers with competing agendas.
- Things seem to be getting factionalized and everyone in management seems to think their customer or project has the largest impact on the future of the company. It makes it hard to know what's actually important and to prioritize your efforts.
