Great people marred by terrible management
Pros
Friendly, knowledgeable people, good office atmosphere
Cons
Poor management, lack of trust, unwillingness to change and adapt. Management shows very little trust in their employees, and this reflects in employee attitudes. There have been attempts to cover this over by sending out employee surveys, however none of the feedback ever seems to be truly taken into account and worked upon. There needs to be a change in leadership strategy as what's current in place is clearly ineffective. Increasingly draconian security policies are making this worse, and the worst part is that these are often implemented without any forethought or consideration of their impact, which then leaves people unable to do their work. Any criticism or technical problems that are raised seem to be ignored, and then people have the gall to criticize despite forewarning! The attitude is very much "fingers in ears" until it's too late. Then when something inevitably breaks or goes wrong, there is an expectation that people will be working long hours to fix these issues, despite them being entirely manufactured and often avoidable. The company's penchant for avoiding spending money wherever possible has caused many issues which often ironically results in more money and many man-hours being spent on fixing these issues. There definitely seems to be a "not-invented-here" problem where the wheel is re-invented many times instead of using known solutions (often since they are deemed to save money). On the flipside, many expensive software products have been rolled out which are worse than the cheaper counterparts that were used before them.
