Experience that you can use to go elsewhere and the building is at least not in Cleveland - Anonymous employee Acuative Employee Review

2.0
Mar 5, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a foot in the door and at least the office isn't in Cleveland. Management at the Cleveland office itself is passable depending on your department

Cons

In the end the company continues to run itself into the ground due to mismanagement by corporate and the company continues to give no real raises 6 years later even when making more money than previous years which causes them to lose good talent every time they manage to find it. COVID wise it seemed the company was going to be semi competent as most the company went remote in March last year. Now with the vaccines starting things are starting to look up but rather than just wait 2 months for everyone to be vaccinated by May/June the company has decided to start forcing people back in March/April. They've even gone so far as firing someone from a department since she asked to stay remote since her kids still are remote since god forbid someone not be in a tiny office space. Now they want to bring back the ENTIRE NOC in a month all at once when the NOC room is a tiny glass enclosed space with 25 people in it when the entire NOC can easily do their jobs efficiently and well remote just like they have been for the past year. Apparently the upper corporate management people just want to see if they can kill someone all while they likely stay remote themselves over in New Jersey since it's easy to make decisions like this when they don't impact you whatsoever. Also never buy any of the short positive reviews you see here that barely say anything as they are for sure made by HR. If you ignore the negative reviews you'll just be like the many other people who, after getting hired, end up saying 'You know what? All those negative reviews were quite right about this company'.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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