- Lack of upward opportunity, especially for those at the bottom and middle rungs of the company. There's not many career levels to begin with, and even when you've clearly outgrown your role and are obviously performing well above your current level, you still need to fight and scrap for the promotion. They're not going to just give it to you. Management seemed to lose quite a bit of promising young talent to bigger competitors because they were too slow to promote them. It was also pretty common to see people at the middle rungs of the company spend 5-10 years at the same level while other people were inexplicably promoted past them. Meanwhile, the company seemed to have an outsize share of directors, VPs, SVPs, etc. and it seemed like every few weeks one of them would be promoted to some new fancy role.
- Promotion process lacked transparency and reeked of favoritism and office politics. Direct supervisors seemed to have little to no actual impact on whether or not you get promoted. Instead, you basically need to try and schmooze those at the director level for promotions, even though they may have dozens of people reporting up to them and there's no way they know what everyone is doing, working on, etc.
- Compensation seemed relatively weak compared to others in the industry. Bonuses are nothing to write home about. Annual pay raises were nice but they didn't even cover inflation. Aside from the 401(k), there's really nothing there to incentivize you to stick around long term---no equity of any kind unless---I presume---you're at the management level, no stock plan, etc.
And for those reasons, I'm out.
