Pros
- Any entry level employee you work with will be young and will not have much relevant experience to the position they are in (just like you). This is what the company uses to sell you on, "you can grow a lot here", meaning they will hire you without any skills needed for your position. Great opportunity to learn that most of the positions here are unfulfilling, low paying and micromanaged. - Company likes to tout how the care about employees, but actions speak louder than words here. - Easy to make friends, misery loves company right? - You can get really good at entering data into a database. You can get really good at telling outsourced team members in India that their grammar is bad and it needs to improve. You can also become an expert in micromanaging your colleagues. - You will have a great chance to gain interviewing skills as you help interview replacements for your colleagues that quit. - Nominal raises will maybe get you to 46k after working for 2+ years at a minimum, pay is only increased with time, level of responsibility does not matter. - You are given a laptop to work from home when you need to communicate with data entry teams in India. Company policy is clear that employees are not allowed to work from home during normal working hours. You are only allowed to work additional hours at home. So if you love to work overtime without pay this is a pro. - Instead of higher pay you get access to beer in the office and alcohol-centric team building events quarterly. - Anytime you give feedback to management about how to improve work the environment you will be told it is taken "seriously" (leading to absolutely no change at all).
Cons
- Job descriptions are deceptive and misleading. Your day to day work will not resemble the posted job description. - You are micromanaged down to the minute on the research team. You are literally required to email your manager and your manager's manager how you spent every minute of your day. Clearly management does not trust employees to use time effectively. You are required to track the amount of emails sent, phone calls made, lines of data entered. The entire process is mindnumbing. Amazing that as many people stick around as long as they do. - Benefits are not outstanding in any way, par for the course in the industry. - Office "perks" are not out of the ordinary for any tech company. - Passive aggressive emails will be sent anytime the team laughs too much during workday, this has happened 3 times in the past year. But don't worry the company values are "Make it fun", just not during working hours... - Revolving door of coworkers. Get used to training people how to do things you hate doing yourself. When new hires come on, managers will ask you to micromanage them as well. - Most research positions do not have transferable skills outside of company. Unless you want to continue your career in data entry! - Research Department moral is incredibly low. Most employees bond by talking about how they want to quit. - Not a good place to work at if you do not enjoy consuming alcohol. - Entire management team is white and male (big surprise huh?) - You will be told to "focus on focus" and be forced to keep a straight face as that is a legitimate company value. - The best people here leave, leaving the lowest common denominator to get kicked up the ladder. They specifically do not hire any management level positions in Research as anyone with experience would be appalled at paltry pay, poor communication styles and soul-crushing low moral. - You know this place is not a "great place to work at" when the recruiters don't even stay a year. - After consistently telling management you are underpaid, after seeing numerous coworkers quit and talk about how much better it is elsewhere, and after offering many thoughtful/legitimate ways to improve employee moral, you will be painted as a whiny, demanding millennial who just uses glassdoor to complain.
