Pros
I believe that the micro-culture that I work within is great. WWT hires some good people that have the potential to create even better teams, creating improved employee morale and a great community to work in. The health insurance benefits I receive are top notch. However, I expect a company as large as WWT to have figured out a way to take care of their employees, their greatest resource, and I am grateful for that. Every other major country in the world has figured out healthcare and the U.S.A has not. So, I am very grateful to work for a company that tries to take care of their employees in this manner. I identify with the company core values and I am grateful that traits you would want to find in any decent human being are traits that this company tries to portray.
Cons
Because the benefits are so good, people are reluctant to leave the company. This may seem like a great thing but people climbing the 'corporate ladder' diagonally is better for innovation overall. Climbing straight up is not always an option. This is a growing company but it is growing in an unhealthy fashion. The entire supply chain has unique groupings within its own culture. I like to imagine each one like its own country. From my experience, there is not a lot of movement concerning migrating from one area or skill to another. Some of these countries get treated way better than others. There is a huge disparity even within the building I work in of the 'haves' and 'have nots'. The stories I hear from others who are related to some of the 'elites', those that work at HQ, it is insane the absurd expenditure of money on so few people. It is absurd that we have more and more workers come to our building and our infrastructure cannot keep up. Growth is too big of a priority when issues like insufficient parking have yet to be addressed as more workers are hired full time or temporarily. I know of a few cases of people's cars being hit and there is little footage to prove that anything happened on the property to hold anyone accountable. I see profits go up each year but predicting and managing growing pains before they occur is something that I have yet to see. Expansions are not well thought out and are at maxed out capacity too rapidly. More growth issues involve poor middle management which is destroying employee morale. More people would leave the company or try to move out of this building but they are either unable to do so because they need the company benefits or they are unable to move laterally or upwards into the company. There are those in middle management that have said to 'tone down their enthusiasm' to other employees as they try to change positions. A few years ago, when I first started, company culture was great. We had some great people in power to make sure production kept at speed, but also make sure the culture was a great one to be a part of. In more recent times, I have seen those who advocated the best for us taken out of power or those that could have had an effect, bail from their position and leave the building because they see where it is headed. A lot of us feel trapped and sad to see where the culture is heading. We want to go back to the days where we felt proud and happy to work there. We like our jobs and our current roles within the company. Some of us would love to explore other roles within the company and we get excited about that possibility. However, as time goes by, I see us turning away from those sentiments and more people buying out of the 'great place to work' mantra and abandoning ship.
