Pros
- Amazing and talented team to work with. - Comprehensive benefits. - Lively company events geared to acknowledging the camaraderie between teams and departments. - Easy-going work environment. Everyone you work with is pleasant, likeable, and generally pretty fulfilled in their current job title. - Unchallenging, unstimulating work environment.
Cons
Corporate hierarchical communication is lacking, with managerial oversight being poor or almost non-existent, especially within the technical departments. Management has little interest in ensuring the individual success of employees, inhibiting motivation for personal career growth/development. This inadvertently subjects employees to a 'do-it-yourself' working style, instilling a sense that you are your own island rather than a collaborative, productive team. This issue is due to Bridgepoint's sole purpose of remaining a competitor in Texas's financial tech industry; billable hours and making money for the company is really all you're wanted for. Any deviation from that principle - regardless of context - is met with blatant hostility. Incentive is also nonexistent at this firm. You are given a false promise of deserved compensation for your work, but it's simply not true; your overtime and extra hours are not compensated accordingly. Likewise, upward mobility is not much of an option at Bridgepoint.