Great team, fragmented process ownership, lots of time spent on bad "high importance" projects & below market comp.
Pros
* lots of amazing people who are fun to hang with, are great at collaborating and growing your skills * My professional network has expanded tremendously at companies across the seattle area after working here. You'll work with a lot of people and have lots of networking opps. Make friends * Good development of staff. I felt invested in * Sweet sweet campus and some legit amazing perks * interesting challenges that kept me growing and learning * My team was very open to cross training and rotating staff throughout their areas of ownership * Promotion opportunities are real. If you are good you will be promoted eventually as long as your manager is in your corner * Company encourages switching teams (vs leaving company) * Good bonus program/target; albeit tied to company performance * Lots of high level ppl promoted for people management skills
Cons
* Very very very low pay at the mgr level. They don't care about employee retention until it's too late * They low-ball candidates on job offers all the time and even request pay cuts (don't do it, stand firm) * Transparency into comp process is low * Covid's impact on travel led to mass layoffs and low moral and cut benefits * Lots of "high importance" projects that numerous teams spend hours and hours on that go no where. Easy to identify project is bad early but unwillingness of management to move on * Lots and lots and lots of meetings * No big picture view. Eg, 5 step process where your team owns step #2 but no one knows what happens the rest of the steps. Not great from a process ownership or development perspective + lots of duplicate work across teams * Poor legacy processes and systems * Technical accounting issues all assessed at high levels and background/reasoning not communicated adequately to preparers, told to "do this" going forward but when you ask why your managers and directors they have no clue. Truly shocking for yours truly