Work-life balance exists, but layoffs and poor leadership hurt
Pros
Work life balance is good. Cool benefits like stipends.
Cons
- overcommits to clients and forces consultants to work very long hours - useless people leaders who don’t help out their employees I was blinded with a layoff out of nowhere. No warning, just sent a random meeting in a Friday and told I’m fired after being on the bench for exactly 12 weeks. Was told 2 weeks before to keep focusing on my certifications and that I’ll be on a project in 2 weeks. What’s funny is they’re planning to double the organization in size but are laying people off.. how does that make sense? This company has lost what it means to be “fiercely human” and treats their employees like a number in a spreadsheet. Once all the long time employees of 15+ years started leaving my organization I should’ve taken that as a sign to do the same.
