Pros
- Work life balance is usually pretty good - Most non-management team employees are kind, engaging and fun - Volunteerism is encouraged
Cons
- Engaged employees have been voicing concerns for YEARS about the lack of growth strategy, jumping from "shiny thing" to "shiny thing" without focus on a strong foundation, lack of engaging work and general lack of direction from leadership. Despite this, the only constant has been "growth at any cost" which has proven to be detrimental to any potential success of the organization. - Sendero either doesn't care to or cannot attract top-tier, outside, experienced consultants for management level roles. Hiring people like that, instead of the 100+ fresh college grads every year, would do SO much to actually boost skills within and relevance outside of the organization. - At a recent quarterly, the CEO said that we would have to be comfortable "accepting less glamorous work". When the work we do is rarely glamorous to begin with, employees are extremely demotivated. It already appears as though Sendero accepts any work they can get, rather than declining clients or roles that are not a good fit for employees. - The way leadership has handled the challenges of the past few months has shined a spotlight on their complete lack of strategy and ability to "manage" the challenges of a changing organization and economy. It is apparent that upper leadership is not competent and is actively hindering any chance for long-term success. - A ridiculous focus on low-level marketing is both concerning and confusing. Other, much more valuable, IO groups and employees are cut or disregarded when they do so much to actually retain and engage employees who are so often burnt out. - Pay and benefits, while improved over the past few years, are still WELL below market rates. Maternity leave is 2 weeks, which is just embarrassing, and the reason why a lot of strong employees have left recently.
