Pros
-This company finds and hires exceptional people, then treats them so badly they bond together tightly. Shared misery creates incredible loyalty among coworkers. -The middle and lower echelons of the company are the best and brightest the maritime industry has to offer. -Signet divisional assets and personnel would be a tremendous boon to anyone who buys the company out lock, stock, and barrel.
Cons
-The best and brightest the maritime industry has to offer are not employed to their fullest potential at Signet. -Micromanagement has been surpassed; it can be more appropriately called "nanomanagement." -The company is hindered by a laserlike focus on trivialities masquerading as attention to detail. So much executive and administrative time is spent on minor issues that bigger-picture items can (and frequently do) languish. -Expect to have every judgement or decision you make examined at counterintuitive length by upper management that has vicarious, if any, experience of reality on the ground. This occurs with sufficient frequency that any productivity at all is nothing short of a miracle. -Sound courses of action are frequently stifled by groupthink and dilatory decision-making processes that lead to activity based on obsolete information. Alternately, snap judgments are made with next to no information. There is no middle ground between the two.
