Experience was "meh" - didn't meet expectations. - Anonymous employee Empower Employee Review

2.0
Jun 3, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great location in DTC, covered parking, they recently started letting you wear jeans everyday to work, cafeteria with lots of great options, some nice people, big corporate feel if you're into that. Lots of jobs in general. 401K and decent amount of time off.

Cons

Although there are lots of jobs in the company, most teams don't have much of a career path. Way too much micromanagement and the company seems to keep people who aren't the best at their job only because of favoritism. Know someone in the company? You're good but if you don't then you'll find better luck elsewhere if you want to grow your career. Managers are insulting and somehow nobody cares if you're getting yelled at or verbally abused. At the end of the day, you're a disposable employee unless you got great connections with someone at the top. They sell you the job with expectations that aren't met. Some teams have people who rarely do actual work and are gossiping all day long. Then the ones who do actually work get yelled at for not being perfectionists. People at the top think low of employees who are lower.

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