- Out of touch C-Suite
- Terrible cross department communication
- Bad pay
- Insanely high turnover
- Little work life balance
- No company pride or culture
Despite Great Minds having incredibly hard working lower level employees (including lower management), the company is plagued by an out of touch senior staff, a lack of structure at any level, and a complete absence of communication between departments. While the company has grown substantially in the last years, the lack of structure and communication cannot be excused and has been a burden on countless lower level employees.
The messy upper levels of Great Minds aside, their is also a lack of care for the lower level employees. Pay at Great Minds is not good to start with, and often promotions come with more responsibilities and not a lot of monetary increases. These employees are often severely underpaid.
Despite calling itself a "non-profit," there is almost no planning from upper management to do charity events. If any type of philanthropy comes from the company, it often comes from motivated individuals and not the company itself.
Finally there is a lack of company culture at Great Minds. Despite being a fairly young company, the culture feels very old and out of date. While most companies throw employee events, happy hours, allow drinking in the office, casual dress, Great Minds doesn't practice any of that and leaves it on the employees to create any type of camaraderie. Due to all of this there is very little company pride.
