It's all talk. Good name to add to the resume because it is nationally recognized but overall not a good place to work.
Pros
- Nationally Recognized name/brand can bolster resume - "Free" Season Pass for you and dependents (but they use this against you) - Lift Tickets for friends/family - Young, fun co-workers (estimate the average age in my dept to be in the early-mid 30's) - HRA health insurance is 'ok' (but expensive if you are healthy and don't visit a doctor often) - Free Starbucks coffee in the lounge (keep you hopped up and productive)
Cons
- Compensation is at least 15-20% below market (they know this and say that pay shouldn't be a driving factor for people to work here) - Time Off is virtually non-existent (they base the 'PTO' policy around the resorts and apply that to corporate office in Broomfield so you get 0 holidays off; instead you must use PTO to take off holidays) - Executive Committee ('EC') micro-manages everything to the point of chaos/design by committee (Senior Management/Directors have no authority to help their employees do their job and must have everything little thing approved by 'EC') - Poor, out-dated equipment/tools to do your job (poor support from management to have the tools to work efficiently) - Consistently talk about making changes to compensation, PTO, 401k matching, etc. just enough to bait people but nothing ever happens; talk the talk but don't walk the walk - Leadership/'EC' totally out of touch with employees work-life balance and constantly are changing course on decisions (and then mostly likely changing course back to original decision after about 3 or 4 course changes) - Consistently hire from outside and rarely promote from within (terribly difficult to move up and usually specialty skills are cited as the reason to go outside of the company; however they do not offer professional development for current employees to gain specialty skills and the pay is so low that you take a huge hit trying to get those skills on your own dime <the tuition reimbursement they talk about in hiring process is a sham>)
