Pros
- Excellent Benefits (1/2 day Friday, Parental leave, floating days, Volunteer day) - Remote work (mostly) - Great colleagues and wide assortment of clients - Great overall transparency in terms of revenue/profit that the company as a whole is making or losing.
Cons
- Low pay, lack of growth (in some departments) - Workfront (really! this product is a disaster) - No departmental transparency - we all know that the company is going through tough times and we are aware of the overall revenue, overall margins etc - but we don't know which department(s) are money makers and which ones are losing money. I would appreciate if this information can be shared so that each employee is aware of whether they have to step up, or continue at current pace. - Leadership is perhaps an echo chamber - only if CEO would have frank conversations with employees skipping all managers - would he understand the pulse of the org. With about 100 employees, I think he should meet each employee directly (skipping managers) for about 10 mins each. - Our billing rate (what we charge clients) went up between 30%-40%, but the Company is still losing money. Somewhere inefficiencies have crept up in the Organization. Perhaps there's a lot of client attrition because of the huge jump in billing. Or perhaps a lot is being spent on Workfront/Udemy and other seldom used benefits. Or perhaps the leadership team is bloated and needs to be trimmed down. - Hyper focussed on completing the 40hr timesheet. As an employee, if I ever put in 39 hrs, it is viewed as a big negative and the message gets passed that the timesheet is incomplete. On the other side, if I put in 41hrs, 42, 43, 45, or even 50 hrs - there's no acknowledgement for the extra effort. Another side effect being earlier, employees could "talk"/"discuss" with each other without necessarily billing the client - but those talks/discussions had a net positive impact on our productivity, as well as having good rapport with colleagues. It has now become a case where employees ping each other and immediately ask for which Workfront task to bill the time to. - Transparency: CEO's calendar is private/hidden - a symptom of leadership preaching about transparency and breaking silos - but not living upto it. - I might be laid off in near future - but I still do want Spinutech to succeed, and do what it was best at.
