Pros
Despite my complaints below, I was genuinely very happy with the level of diversity as Vision. The leadership that I interacted with was far more diverse than is typical in this industry and I happily worked along side people of all ethnicities, genders, backgrounds, and cultures throughout the company. For my position at least the pay was great.
Kontras
TURNOVER: Constant and continuous turnover in personnel and management makes it impossible to build relationships and have any consistency in or quality of work. In my year at Vision personnel in the following positions left the company: HR director, Field Operations Director, ALL AV field engineers, Sr. AV Programmer, another Field Operations Director, BOTH company presidents, most (all?) service technicians, and more project managers than I can even count. NO COMMUNICATION: Communication is nonexistent and there is 0 effort to provide critical information required to complete tasks. I was very often sent to sites without any knowledge of the customer, system to be worked on, or even the reason for being sent there. BAIT AND SWITCH: Despite being hired as an AV Programmer, in my entire year+ with Vision I only fully programmed a single system of my own. Instead, nearly my entire time with the company was spent working in field engineer or service tech roles (since all of them quit) to the point that I'm now significantly out of practice and am a worse programmer now than when I started with the company. CONFLICT OF INTEREST: As part of the recent realignment of the company's business units, Project Managers are now responsible for approving time. Project Managers are also paid commission on project performance. This presents a massive conflict of interest and has created an adversarial environment where PMs are cutting project hours and aggressively denying the time and work submitted to their projects to line their pockets. This results in rushed, incomplete, and badly turned over projects that have to be fixed by Service and the Field Engineers, angry clients, and generally very poor work. HORRIBLE WORK/LIFE BALANCE: After all of the field engineers quit, I was driving 2-1/2hrs+ each way to client sites in NOVA daily for months at a time to commission and service systems in various states of completion. This had significant effects on my mental and physical health and is further indicative of the "bait and switch" nature of my position at Vision.