Likewise, as Perficient is so large and constantly acquiring more businesses, you can start to feel unimportant. Training budgets are meek, if existent at all, and commitments for training/conferences are rarely far enough in advance to make comfortable travel plans.
Policies are rigid and constantly prove that there is little to no compassion for the employee -- everything is about the company's bottom line. Overhead of being a consultant -- time sheets, expense reports, etc. -- is worse than market average. Company-wide "required-attendance" meetings are held at times convenient to corporate, regardless of whether or not they are convenient for local employees; often requiring employees to stay hours late in order to attend.
Instead of overtime pay or flex-time, we have a billable bonus program -- a bonus based on % of workable hours that are billable -- that, harking back to the no compassion for the employee point, makes employees feel overworked and under appreciated.
Instead of selling to match employee skill sets, employees are very subtly threatened to learn skills they don't want in order to keep their jobs.
Lastly, Lotus Notes! Yuck! We are "an IBM shop" but does that mean we need to choose an inferior product?
It's no wonder that approximately a quarter of our acquired employees quit within the first year or two, including our former CEO/owner. I suspect more (*cough*) would if the job market was better right now.