Big Company, Small Personality - Anonymous employee Darden Employee Review

3.0
Jul 10, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Networking, great colleagues, office perks such as on-site clinic, dry cleaning, fitness center, café, etc...; employee discounts,

Cons

Benefits were terrible for such a large organization, they had to own the rights to any systems they had (i.e; ATS, Sales Software, POS, etc...) and these systems were mediocre at best. IT would spend so much time on fixing flaws in the existing systems, that nothing would ever get done in a timely manner and you were always told about the "IT freeze" which just meant that they were not interested in helping you, you had to take ownership to find a work-around to the problems.

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