Pros
Rho24, smart in-depth workshops by smart people.
Cons
Where do I start? From on-boarding you're fed a lot of lip service and myths of a progressive and innovative workplace. On paper they encourage immediate feedback but in practice I received late, vague and nonspecific feedback that often included bullying and belittling on offenses that included: double spacing after a period in an internal email, whether or not you looked at a clock during a meeting, asking too many questions, not asking enough questions, etc. Feedback sounds a lot like "Someone said they saw you do something they didn't like sometime ago" with no specifics as to who, what, when, where, or why so you cannot be given context on which to improve. A lot of micromanagement over very little work. In addition to the mindless micromanagement, any promotion is based on is based on favoritism rather than the merit of work actually performed. There are social "tests" on which the subject is not privy to and failure to join a clique-ish environment is the result of refusing to go out for after-work drinks and kareoke on Tuesday nights in downtown Chapel Hill every week. The social game seems to be more important than actually winning bid defenses. If you were not apart of the cliques you were bullied by ad hominem insults and in my case, property damage and property theft. HR feeds you the lie that "there are no lay-offs" because they "prehire" people based on their "predicted" work. Truth is that they overhire and there is no work. See it as a red flag when they can not provide you minor specific details as to what your role would be working on during your interview. When there is no work, they'll pretend to restructure you under their flatline structure, give you busy work while they gather some of your belongings, bring you into a meeting under false pretenses that its a regularly occurring meeting, and lay you off effective immediately as they perp walk you out the door like you're a criminal. I had to call HR multiple times over the next few weeks to get the remainder of my belongings because I wasn't allowed to go upstairs to get them myself. In the end, I just got a box of broken glass and damaged items.
