Pros
• Flexibility with schedules, decent benefits, and sufficient PTO. • Certain roles may allow the possibility to work from home for a couple of days a week, which can be taken advantage of liberally. • Ineffectual employees can hope to achieve highest regards as long as they pretend to be a leader and maintain an illusion of tireless efforts. • An easy place to add to a resume and use the company as a placeholder until the next offer presents itself. Many ex-employees are freely welcomed back with a better title and higher pay, regardless of their past contributions to the company.
Cons
• Managers are a dime a dozen and tend to be quite incompetent with actual systems that are being developed and managed, as well as functions of their direct reports. Oftentimes, managers spend their days in unproductive meetings without any face to face interaction with their employees nor the clients and provide no substantial contribution to the company. • There is very little training from management, if any at all. Most guidance comes from coworkers in the form of a ‘mentor ship’ that is downright unorganized as they themselves have different ways of performing basic tasks within each group; there is rarely a clearly defined standard operating procedure for simple tasks. • Performance reviews are not based on merits or metrics, but rather a contrary system of opinions from peers and arbitrary goals that are nearly impossible to completely exceed expectations overall, which is the only way to attain a significant raise. • If you a skilled and diligent employee, you will be expected to carry the workload of others on your team and work long hours to clean up and resolve the chaos that colleagues were not able to complete due to sheer ineptitude. • You will only be able to succeed and advance if you are considered a favorite of your managers or their managers. • There is no actual career path since middle management aims to keep their most skilled employees exactly where they are so that they cannot outperform the managers themselves.
