Great people overshadowed by poor leadership and culture
Pros
Tight knit and great group of people, that are no longer with the company.
Cons
This place WAS great, particularly the people I worked with directly and indirectly. They allowed me to grow my career and gave me so many opportunities, and most of my managers were always there to go to bat for me. Under the hood, though, there were fundamentally a lot of red flags that I and many others chose to set aside due to our great working relationships (and friendships) and relatively good work/life balance. Those red flags then started to become major issues that ultimately led to the downfall of the company. 1. Poor Leadership and Mismanagement: Leadership stagnated under individuals who were really just there to coast and did little to attract new or young talent and fresh ideas. There was no innovation for the past five years — our direct competitor from back then is now on top, and we are no longer in the picture. 2. Compensation: This location was specifically only 10–15 minutes away from major companies such as Workday, yet the compensation was not competitive. 3. Culture: There was a saying whenever bizarre, unorthodox, and frustrating situations would constantly hamper our working culture — we called it the "Topcon Way." That is not a positive thing. We were so accustomed to the way culture and politics functioned within the company that we simply had to accept things as they were, because we knew leadership and culture were never going to change or improve. Today, everyone I knew — including myself — in IT, Business Applications, Engineering, and other departments have all been outsourced following an acquisition by a private equity firm to an MSP.
