Avoid Working Here Until Senior Leadership Has Changed
Pros
Colleagues at the middle management level and below.
Cons
Upper Management and HR. There is a narrative at the company that all critical feedback of Evergen is from resentful employees that are personally angry for one reason or another. This is not true. There are serious issues at this company that I don't see being resolved unless senior leadership is replaced. As an example: while working there, every day felt like a series of loyalty tests. Projects were created and sent down from senior leadership without a clear understanding of the impact of them, because they did not consult with any employees outside of upper management who would actually implement them. If those who were asked to work on those projects brought up that there might be better ways to implement their goals that could save time and be more effective, you were labeled "not a team player". It was clear that individual opinions (informed by decades of experience in some instances) were not valued, even though there was good intent behind those opinions. You were expected to blindly follow the orders of senior leadership that felt the need to dictate exactly how to do your job. This issue was made worse by the ineffectiveness of the HR department to provide feedback to senior leadership. Instead of addressing honest feedback from employees, their tactic became to either ignore the comments or to attribute them to a small group of unreasonable, resentful employees who aren't "team players". Instead of attempting to work through issues and coming to the table with employees, the HR department decided to insulate senior leadership from criticism and disregard all other employees. I left the company when I realized there was no way for my reasonable concerns to be addressed without fear of being labeled as a problem employee. The feedback mechanism was broken. I think there are employees who naturally align well with senior leadership strategies, and they are happily employed. For those who didn't always share the same opinion, they were not met with a well-intentioned discussion on the best way to implement goals. They were ignored, labeled as problems, and in some instances, seemingly passed up for career advancement opportunities.
