Power Design reviews

Let me start off with - All of the "5 star" and "seemingly perfect" ratings are obviously not accurate and fictitiously written to try to smooth over the perception of PDI - which is well known in the area and all recruiters - HIGH TURNOVER - even people who work there have made comments "it wouldn't surprise me if they fired me tomorrow" You literally do not know who will be there each day, the company is a revolving door. Don't fall in love with your job or the company atmosphere, most people are gone in 6 months. -PTO - I have never seen a system such as this, you have a set amount of PTO days but all general holidays (I.E. Memorial Day, July 4th, Christmas Eve, etc) get taken out of your PTO.. after all of the holidays I am left with 3 days I would be able to take off or be sick. Everyone stays in the negative with time off - so when you inevitably get fired, they will take the time out of your paycheck I assume. - Training - There is none. It's sink or swim with an extremely confusing system. Don't try to ask questions- depending on your boss, you will get snapped at - Very cut throat and no where to expand. If your management gets the hint you want to expand your knowledge, skills, or your position - you will be gone the next day and someone a little more naive and content will take your place. - Low salaries in comparison to the job market. Money is spent elsewhere - parties, beer, a private jet that takes the owners, their children, and whoever has managed to mingle their way in with them, to their beach house in Cabo. (but don't hold your breath at being one of these lucky few, it takes years of brown nosing - if you can manage to hang on to your job that long)

Based on what I'm hearing from former and current employees, all the negative aspects of the company are still intact after all the talk about improving. This leads me to wonder how legitimate the positive reviews are. No workplace is perfect and to rate it as such is a tiny bit odd. When a company has a reputation that is known even by people whom have never worked for PDI, there has to be something negative to be said in any honest review. It's not hard to find handfuls of problems with PDI, many of which are echoed in the negative reviews you can see on Glassdoor. I can say that my compensation was very poor in contrast to my education and experience. When more and more responsibilities are added to your plate and the skill level you're required to have expands, you'd think raises would be a no-brainer. This is not the case. Raises were oddly arbitrary and ever changing in their frequency or amount ... if you were ever lucky enough to get one at all. The desires of both myself and fellow employees to grow outside of our job duties were not heard. When you combine low pay and no way to better yourself, a disillusioned employee is going to spawned from that. This would explain the high rate of turnover PDI experiences. An employee looking for more and who makes that known is not going to sit dormant and allow their personal career goals to be buried just because management has no clue on how to expand a department. I truly liked the people who I worked with. The co-workers were always professional, helpful and knowledgeable in my department. When you see such people get nowhere in PDI, you wonder if they are even looked at as the driving force behind the company's explosive growth. Management does not really appear to understand that the employees make the company and by not allowing them to blossom out of dead end positions only hurts PDI and its already grey reputation. There's no real reason to get into some details as they've been repeated often below. The culture feels flawed. Hiring young newcomers is great, but not when there are few veterans there to show them the tricks of the trade. One department felt like a fraternity and sorority with out of control libidos and egos. Once or twice a year it looked like the entire department was scrubbed out and a new batch of fresh graduates poured in for another repeat cycle. I've worked for quite a few companies and never have I had an experience like that at PDI. Some were positive and fun, but career wise, it was depressing. The job and struggles and stress it put me through did actually send me into a state of depression that I had to seek professional treatment for. Never have I had that happen at any job.