Pros
None - pay was well below the mean
Cons
- Cliquish work environment: you will be sidelined very quickly if someone in management (who didn't have a say in hiring you) doesn't like you. - Use of performance criticism as a mechanism for disarming employee complaints of mistreatment and discrimination: any attempt to register complaints against a microagressive coworker will be immediately countered with criticism of your performance or you "not being a team player". - Failing upwards works only if you are a "bro;" otherwise, it gets you fired: An engineer who regularly screws up plan sets and calculations does it again; so, management demands that I take his drawings and calculations fix them, and keep his stamp on the plans. While this should be no issue, especially if a plan set was rejected and has to be resubmitted, its not fair that I not receive recognition. When this happened too many times, I complained, then the "performance criticism" and HR jargon started. - Thumbs on the scale for certain people to advance - like the case above, it appears that you will break your back and have your accomplishments deliberately overlooked in order to make another person stand out. If you find that one of your colleges is being celebrated for the same accomplishment you achieved time and time again, you will be told by management that it is the "minimum expectation for performance." There's really no humanism or empathy.
