Pros
Silencerco was founded on 5 great pillars and for many years the owners and upper management ran the business based on those pillars. We felt like a family, like the owners cared about us and what we thought, our voice was heard and so many of the employees ideas were implemented. We felt valued and appreciated, people were happy to work for the owners. Once the owners stepped back (or quit as the employees call it) and handed it over to the 3 main managers that are now running it into the ground, the moral and excitement has died. There are now NO pros to working at Silencerco in its current state.
Cons
Once the 3 new upper managers took over after laying off 1/3rd of the company, they started running it like it was a military barracks. People are threatened with losing their jobs on a daily basis. Employees don't know if they will make it through the week after seeing employee after employee fired for no reason. Employees are quitting in droves, in one week we lost 7 people due to the way they are treated. If you are not a complete jerk, you don't belong in upper management, it seems that you have to be mean to be in charge. Gone are the days of leadership and in are the days of bosses and managers cracking a whip from the back of the pack, telling everyone what to do but not willing to do it yourself. If you call in sick, regardless if you have PTO or not, regardless if you are on deaths doorstep, you have to make up the time on the weekend!! The management constantly lies to its employees. We would be in an all hands meeting and the acting CEO would lie about how many of this product we are going to ship and when I asked my managers about it they would tell me that it is impossible to ship that many. Later in the month the numbers would be modified to the "correct" amount of products to be shipped. Due to extremely bad planning and sales forecasting the amount of mandatory overtime would change from one week to the next, forcing the employees to "never make plans on the weekend" as we were told to do because we may have to be called in to work again. The new slogan at Silencerco is "we will catch it on the warranty return". Silencerco is now all about the money and the number of products shipped in a month, it used to be about the people behind the product and when it is all about the employees, we cared about the product and it shows in what is manufactured and built.
