Smoke, mirrors, doubletalk and don't forget the beer
Pros
Decent benefits package Work-life balance; I never take stuff home Life is good if your a software engineer or developer You can sleep at night knowing your directly helping small business vs. wall street fat cats
Cons
*When 95% of reviews mention "beer cart fridays" this should tell yuo something about the a) gullibility of the employee writing and b) the self congratulatorty snow job the company has pulled over the eyes of most people. Seriously, a $2 Sam Adams is the key to career happines? Who knew. Call the Harvard Biz Review to write a case study on this. *The company likes to brag about the "no jerks" hiring policy, but this has long ago been thrown out of the car at 75 mph. You have senior management that prostitutes customer data to sketchy "partners" for cross selling that only net $15k to make quarterly stock numbers. Way to go. *I write the same employee review every year. Nothing changes. They say that career development is the employees' responsibility, but when you have managers who by and large stifle their people and don't promote from within, this is laughably pathetic. (And HR, if you are reading this, I am not going to contact my HR Biz Partner or the CHRO to "discuss my concerns." HR is smart, backstabbing and gossipy enough to know the dept not considered a neutral party. They are not the rank-and-file employee's friend. No employee wants to stick their neck out and be the target ) *Senior managers think they know what the customer wants without talking to them. Sample size that changes a program's direction can be as little as 6 custoemrs. *If you are a intelligent and talented and a woman, watch out. Your bosses will resent you and you will have to do triple the effort to prove yourself to no avail. *mediocrity rises to the top. People who can't move the needle on the weaker products we offer get lateral or upward moves to ruin new products. *Interns get better treatment and opportunitys than employees
