Toxic culture and abusive management
Pros
The mistreatment we endured at the hands of regional management helped some of us to bond. Some events were pretty cool - but even that is over now.
Cons
Management is a menace, they don’t care about you even though they tell you otherwise. If you happen to have the smallest conflict with your direct manager, HR will start communicating with you once you’re on the chopping block to leave and will make zero effort to understand what is happening on your side of conflict - if they communicate with you, there’s already a punishment lined up and it’s a final decision. If you become outspoken and try to defend your rights, they will fabricate reasons to let you go even if you have consistently good yearly performance reviews and are viewed as a valuable team member. If you’re trying to learn and grow inside the company, you are left to your own devices - you will be expected to learn everything by yourself about the position you are aiming to reach since no one has the time to onboard/help you. You have to be personal/old time friends with your direct manager to feel secure in your position, otherwise you will be discarded whenever they feel like it. Structural decisions that might impact your personal life (for example RTO policy) are agreed upon on a friday with effective on the following monday. Your efforts and results mean nothing whenever salaries are reviewed - there will never be budget to raise you anyway.