Pay:
severely underpaid. Bonuses are always at about 1%, inflation outpaces raises.
Management:
- Roles are dissected and the parts of roles that look good on a resume are taken on by managers. Ie. Project Management, Manager takes care of all the funding, risks, etc, PMs just execute the plan.
- If you kiss butt you get the better bonuses/raises. Make a huge mistake, and cause company hundreds of thousands of dollars, don't worry just kiss some butt. You will be reassigned but still have a job
- Performance only comes into play when they want to get rid of you, the find the smallest of reasons to weed people out
- Empire building drives personnel decisions, some managers just want more people reporting to them
- Promotions are not given to the most qualified, usually given to the loudest voice in the room
- Business continuity plans are skewed to keep the 'good ol' boys', and used when the yearly layoffs occur
Training:
- Very little if any training courses available to employees
- typically the software area will choose one or two people to get training, and then they come back and give a watered down version of the training to coworkers
Workload:
- Ever increasing people laid off each year means their tasks/workload gets passed on to the remaining employees
Red flags:
- Most job postings are for internships/students (cheap labor)
- Dying industry
- promotions because there is a someone in the seat, not based on accomplishment
- lack of roadmaps, usually delivered 6 months into the year. little to no direction
- no investment in employees
- substandard pay for roles
Diversity:
- just a buzz word that is used to get federal contracts
- word used when hiring models for catalogs
