Pros
A paycheck and health insurance - which you will need to pay for your mental health downward spiral once you start working here
Cons
I loved this company.. past tense. I really did. There was so much that was going right. The Executives cared, our diversity programming was great, leaders were being developed, and our culture was one of pride. That all changed right around the time almost every leader in HR left within the span of two weeks. They put a person over HR who had no HR experience and was in charge of Vendor Management and the whole company suffered as a result. Most of the diversity on the executive level was laid off, and all programming for the employees was basically halted. They did nothing for employee appreciation but a sentence or two from Baron, honestly it would have been better if they did nothing because that was a slap in the face. They stopped sending surveys to ask for our feedback so we don't even have a way to tell them how we feel. HR seems to have time to respond to these comments, which makes sense as they are public, but can't send a survey to ask us directly? A culture of nastiness and mistrust has taken hold. Most of the leaders left from the layoffs in HR are simply yes men and women to Baron and then every level down follows suit. The leaders who are left don't show they care or even consider us as valuable employees. Money is the sole driver, which is fine for the executives and stockholders and terrible for us as employees. Although, it's only a matter of time before the money saved from laying people off catches up with the poorly managed people, and even they start to feel it. I truly feel for the leaders who do care, a small number do exist, but I can't imagine they will stay. Every call/meeting is spent at least 50% decompressing from the unrelenting amount of stress everyone is under, and very little is actually being accomplished. The people they keep are those who they think are loyal to the individual leaders and not who are most skilled. So now you have 1/3 of the staff and none of the skills. Anyone who can leave did, and anyone with skills that is left is just waiting for a job offer. The amount of people I know who have started antidepressants or anxiety meds as a direct result of these things is terrible. Add to this a force-placed return to work with no real justification... it's an utter mess.
