Family business with growing pains
Pros
I've worked at Twin State for 12 years and consider myself friends with the CEO. The company has been good to me, with raises every year and showing concern for our career goals.
Cons
The past 5 years have been tumultuous as leadership tries to expand the business. Expansion has been organic for the sake of covering all the customers who want service from our networking department. I have seen people given leadership roles and seen them taken away at the CEO's whim. The CEO has stated they intend to retire in a couple of years, but with the amount of control they continue to exert over the company, I'm not sure I can take that seriously. I have had to really let go of my attachment to anything internal to make it through the day. There's also really nowhere to go in terms of job titles, so any advancement in your career is performed on your own time. There is a lot of lip service paid to employee satisfaction but the leader behind the leader just wants to see billable hours.
