Pros
- 100% remote work - Every other Friday off - Health benefits - Good pay rates
Cons
I should've ran at the start. While interviewing, I was advised I'd have unlimited PTO. When I started, I was advised that's only for employees making over $100K. I almost quit, but decided to stick it out. When I started in 2022, it truly was a dream job. Every other Friday off, fully remote work, decent pay, quarterly events with travel / lodging fully paid, even monthly boxes of goodies! In late 2023, things started going off the rails. The boxes stopped "temporarily" (aka permanently), Then, the hiring stopped. Then, our healthcare got cancelled because someone forgot to pay them?! Pretty embarrassing. The events went away. Basically everything that made me excited to join the company in the beginning, went away. It was also around this time that the layoffs began. They will claim they don't do layoffs, but what else do you call it when your company head count is cut by more than 50%? I inquired on multiple occasions as to whether my job was safe. I was assured it wasn't, that my work was high quality, nothing to worry about. I was shocked when I was abruptly let go, via a 2 minute conversation. As others have mentioned here, they advised my firing was due to "performance issues". As others have mentioned here, that is a complete lie. The real reason comes in two parts. One, a position was being eliminated from our IT team due to the previously mentioned layoffs. The company is too small to justify the extra position. Two, it's clear the company rewards sycophancy more than anything. Go onto LinkedIn and look up Jobot posts if you want to see what I'm talking about. The company is not well run. They spend more time working on presenting a polished aesthetic rather than improving the companies fundamentals. I hope they're able to improve and turn it around, as I hate to see so many good people lose their jobs. This would require a fundamental shift in how the company is run, and simply put, it's not going to happen.
