Meat grinder littered with company politics
Pros
- Most of the people here are incredibly smart and hard working - Work can be a fun place with peers - There can be great managers
Cons
- Office politics is rampant. If a manager or director doesn’t like you as a person, despite producing high quality work, they won’t acknowledge your contributions and they’ll find ways to punish you - Only promote once a year in the summer - Underpaying employees compared to similar roles at other companies in the Austin market, in some cases the pay discrepancy is as high as $10K+ - Workload is unrealistic and out of line based on salary - People get promoted for the wrong reasons, i.e. threatening upper management or because they’re good friends with upper management rather than merit based promotions - Lack of transparency from upper leadership, constant changing initiatives with absolutely no thought about long term strategy - The good people always leave for more money elsewhere, leaving the less than stellar employees, creating a toxic work environment - 2 weeks maternity leave... what a joke. - “anonymous” employee surveys that aren’t really anonymous. Don’t be honest, you’ll get fired for it - 50% butts in chairs rule around the holidays. 50% of your team must be working in office during times like Thanksgiving and Christmas because CEO came down to talk to people during the holidays and got upset there was nobody to talk to in person, despite people being available remotely. - Exceeding expectations is never good enough. Every congratulations email from execs is followed by a “but you could have done better” message.