Pros
- You can negotiate basically any salary that you want because salary ranges are completely arbitrarily set. - They will offer a huge quantity of RSUs, if you can manage to compromise your personal ethics and stay long enough to collect on them.
Cons
- It's clear to me from reading the sudden rash of very short positive reviews in December that they must have requested (or highly "encouraged"?) the inside sales team based in NC to fill out reviews in Glassdoor to amp up their rating. The fact that they all say there's absolutely nothing wrong with the company and they're all super 5 star reviews, should already be a red flag. - In fact, should have listened to my gut and paid more attention to the red flags during the interview stage as well. There is no Diversity & Inclusion at all in the organization, nor values, and the culture is absolutely toxic. There was one person in the interview panel that was subtly trying to tell me not to work there, but I ignored them anyway. I won't even go into one conversation I was in where one senior leader actually threw out a joke that he thought was funny, but was actually extremely inappropriate. By that time, I already knew that HR was powerless at this organization. They're essentially a recruiting and benefits management department, because there is no centralized HR process for anything. There are no performance reviews, no rhyme or reason to title levels, no merit increase policies, so basically if your manager loves you and has enough power to fight for an increase, they'll do so, but if they're on the outs with the rest of the leadership team, you're out of luck. I had zero confidence that I could come to HR (or even my own manager) to let them know of that inappropriate comment and that anything would happen out of it. - As an example of the culture, it is not uncommon for members of leadership to regularly yell at employees or adopt very aggressive stances on calls. The CEO only likes the "yes men and women", and never listens to anything even if there's enough data to back it up. He's 100% a micromanager, and you wouldn't think at lower levels that you'd have to really worry about that, since a CEO in most organizations of this size doesn't get involved in every tiny decision, but he does. The "strategy" if you can call it that, oscillates from day to day based on the mood and whatever latest article that he has read. The leadership style used across the organization is best described as management by fear, intimidation, and when all else fails, threats. This is why teams hold meetings ahead of the meetings with the CEO to discuss what can or cannot be said in front of him so that they don't trigger one of his outbursts. So for a 30 minute meeting with the CEO, it's not uncommon for the team to hold at least a 2 hour meeting earlier in the week to strategize how to best manage his emotional experience. There are many of these meetings with the CEO every week because, again, he has to micromanage everyone, so you can do the math as to what your own schedule would look like building decks and having quarterbacking conversations with other teams before the main meetings. The saddest part of all this is that he has no idea that people are wasting time doing all this and it's 100% because of the way he reacts to any kind of news. This is not leadership. - There is a significant lack of integrity across many layers of the organization as well. For example, in one call a high ranking leader proudly announced to a large team that they have regularly skirted a pretty clear compliance rule (and laughed/joked about it). The team didn't seem to think that there was anything wrong with that at all..... at a publicly traded company. I really wish that was the only lack of understanding of corporate compliance that I personally witnessed while there. It came to the point where I no longer wished to be associated with this type of organization at the risk to my personal integrity and boundaries of ethics, despite the mountains of cash that had been thrown at me to sell me into taking the job. - Don't expect any work life balance either. They do not adhere to any kind of work schedule whatsoever. There's a certain "workaholic" mentality at the organization that is exhibited by those in leadership, and while that may be fine for them personally if they have no other family obligations, they still expect you to reply to emails/texts/IMs at all hours of the day/night etc. It's not uncommon for them to expect you to attend meetings that are wildly out of your regular working hours on a consistent basis (we're not even talking about emergency meetings here, just regular business). - I thought long and hard about writing or not writing a review. What finally decided it was that list of bogus perfect reviews that suddenly popped up. I feel like they're trying to bury the reviews with the truth to boost their Glassdoor ratings and cover what an awful experience it was to work there. But don't just take it from me... if you go to LinkedIn and see the average tenure in the organization, you'll find that it's only 2 years. Sure, they'll tell you that they grew super fast since COVID etc, but be forewarned, people are leaving that just arrived because the culture is terrible. In interviews, they'll have a clever answer for everything you ask. And I bought it all. They can't find enough people to fill the jobs, so they're trying their best to sell you into a vision of this place that is simply not true. You can do better.
