NIC reviews

- come in as high as possible bc raises are mediocre unless you get promoted to Director of Development, Technology, Operations, or GM-those are the only positions that are well-paid - company views itself as a technology company but the project managers and operations staff are for the most part technology-ignorant; they tend to be hindrances to a quality product - some people who come in with little to no experience are lifted up very quickly and put in important leadership roles without earning them; the result is that you often have people a few years out of college in charge of people with a decade or more of expertise with no real understanding of what they accomplished to get such a prestigious position. - the awards that the company covets are primarily the results of the creative leaders in each portal yet there is no career path for that important group of people, it is a literal dead end - operations staff are all given offices while the developers and creative staff are stuck in tiny cubes-it is disrespectful and creates a resentment culture. It is also counter-productive as tech staff needs the room for equipment and white boards and privacy (silence!) to work 1000 times more than any operations staff member

Training is almost non-existent. Much vaunted help with continued education simply doesn't exist. Even if you are on of the very rare people who manage to get it, the reimbursement is far from good unless you straight A everything.