Power Design reviews

So much money is spent on those events that we've openly talked about why it's so hard to get competitive pay when our job descriptions started evolving and duties double or triple when the company experienced explosive growth over the past few years. HR wants to hire the top people, but the wages are horrible in some departments. This may have been an OK practice during the recession when people were desperate for work, but nowadays this is just insulting. Not sure how executive assistants straight out of college are making more than experienced people, but whatevs. HR and management would rather have a person anchored to a position until they quit just because that person is good at their job and filling that gap would take time. This happens a lot, just look at the turnover that has happened over the past 10 years! People who actively try to move into another title and have the experience the job positing requires are shrugged off. Then management is surprised when people put in notices. A review from a couple weeks ago pointed out how employees are made to entertain the executives with skits and other distractions that are labelled as team-building exercises or WIG presentations. PDI is growing rapidly and deadlines are omnipresent, but stop everything you are doing to dress up and be Mitch's jester. Then have management come down on you for not getting an urgent project out fast enough. Fair enough. PDI still feels like a high school, something a lot of us were hoping would change as the company grew. There are cliques and bullies and outsiders. The Bro culture has been amplified since the gym was finished. Some of the employees have an enlarged sense of entitlement that they are completely incapable of common courtesy. The work hard, play hard mantra has to stop. PDI isn't a big name corporate entity with stock holders and a board of directors. PDI a private family run company and suffers from many of the negative qualities of being just that. Some people with zero work experience hold VP positions or become project managers. Some of it is nepotism, some of it is part of maintaining a youthful appearance to impress clients who tour the office. Is PDI afraid to hire older or unattractive people who don't fit a certain beauty profile? Raises some concerns about potential discrimination. Every time a negative review pops up, it is followed by one or two cheer leader ones that fail to point out any of the common problems that employees, current and former, have been speaking out about since the pay-cut days. That doesn't make PDI look good, it gives off the appearance that the staffing and HR departments are trying to do damage control without ever addressing the real issues.

Power Design is a regime. Agree or get out. Don't challenge, don't innovate, get in line. Also the nepotism is real. Jeez I've never worked somewhere that open favoritism was okay. People who have no idea what they are doing are placed in high up roles just because of a family relation. It's also super sexist. Just look in the bathrooms of the gym. The management of the departments is awful. They treat the employees, drafters and engineers alike, like cattle and put immense pressure if they are not getting their way. I was looking to move away from home and Power Design jumped at the chance to hire me, showing off their fancy office and "core values"(aka full of lies). During my interview I was asked questions that were nebulous in wording. When I asked for it to be clarified it seemed one interviewer was getting angry. But I brushed it off. When I was hired I soon found out that anger and that interviewer go hand in hand. They are NOT OPEN to any new ideas. If you even suggest something new they get annoyed, let alone you push for something then their face gets a shade of red I thought was only in cartoons and curses you out. This business may be growing in job count but the practices are stagnant and failing because of people like them and others that refuse to change or accept any new ideas. They treat the employees like an abusive parent. They say they love them and do all these things for them but it is a thin veneer that vanishes soon upon being hired. They throw crazy parties, this is true. However they also have horrible health insurance and PTO. You get 7 days that acrues throughout the year and expires every new year. When you leave, if you have unused PTO you do not get to have the money for those hours. They could cancel one event and give the employess a bonus every year, but they dont and bonuses and raises are scant to non-existent. They FORCE the employees to perform outlandish skits that have nothing to do with the job but to entertain CEO Mitch Permuy. You feel like a court jester. Any of the positive reviews you see on here were written by the HUGE HR department staff. They probably need one that huge because of the constant complaints inside the company. I was told I would be challenged at this job, but not that I would be dealing with the "mentally challenged" leadership. They treat the field people horribly. I had one sit next to me for weeks and the stories I was told were amazingly horrifying. Quick summary of one of them field people were not allowed long enough breaks and they defacated in their pants for fear of upsetting power design. I could go on, but I'm just done with this place. Please work somewhere else and save yourself.