Pros
Offers remote positions for its employees
Kontras
Company recently executed their annual, sometimes biannual, “restructure” where many people were laid off. To preface, I was not one of them as I left at-will, so this is not written in spite. But this is written to warn anyone even considering submitting an application to this company.
This company is going to go under, or sell. Year after year the culture grows more toxic, more uneasy, and more dark. In the near 5 years I had been there, I had not once come across someone who did not share that same sentiment.
Employees stay because it pays their bills and it is remote (most positions), but do they believe in the mission? - No. The company absolutely lacks a clear vision, no one actually knows what the company does or how it stays afloat. Do employees have faith in their management? - No. Anyone and everyone in a management position are simply “yes-men or women” who “do as they say” to save their own you-know-whats. They have one priority and it is themselves. Some do a good job at acting like they care, but would push you in front of a moving vehicle if upper csuite told them to. It’s pathetic.
The company prides themselves on being one of the “Top Workplaces”. Such prestige must be either paid-for, or voted by internal, upper csuite because that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Talk to the employees and ask if they’d ever consider this place a top workplace, or don’t & save your breath because the answer is NO.
This company has a near 1-star review based off of HUNDREDS of reviews from past and current employees. “The math ain’t mathing” for this “Top Workplace”.
Interestingly enough, the poor reviews on this platform were once brought up in an internal meeting that I sat in on, and the individual who addressed their concern for such bad reviews was soon let go. I wonder why. Company embarrassed perhaps?
In the near five years that I was there, I had been one of their longest lasting employees. I very rarely interacted with someone who had been there longer than me. That in itself is an extreme red flag.
Now, is HR aware of any or all of what I just shared? Yep! Do they care, act like they care, or plan to change their toxic ways? Nope. Most of HR that I personally interacted with were some of the harshest, disrespectful people I have met in a workplace environment. But they’re “for the people”, right?