Pros
Monthly pizza parties Freedom of 1 WFH day a week Very nice people 15 days of PTO Cool platform, and solid industry training that accompanies Decent work-life balance Good promotion opportunities Golf and drinking is life Additional bureaucratic layer of Morningstar leadership $10 Sbucks gift cards for the holidays Nice discounts on quality swag at the company store
Cons
Embarrassing under market non-negotiable base pay Non-diverse paradise Cult of personality under CEO "Othering" and cliques within teams, as well as strong management politics and favoritism People leave managers, not companies, but in this case they're all wrapped into one. My ex-boss specifically told me (paraphrasing) we were being deliberately underpaid to motivate us to work harder and get promoted. While this isn't unheard of, the admission of why the base pay was set to a laughable amount was appalling. Additionally, whatever pressure came down from the heavens of Exec leadership to middle managers gives the impression that everyone's behinds are under fire and so the aggression and micromanaging compound down to the IC level. I've already given management and HR an earful about how majorly white and male the company is. You aren't a person here, you are a mouth and two hands that makes the company money, and if you want to WFH two days a week, expect to be hounded to come in or forced to resign. This wasn't me, but the effects rippled through the team and morale went into negative. At the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the CEO sent out a long email about profits remaining steady while offering "thoughts and prayers" to the 237 Ukraine-based employees with no context or transparency of how - or if - they actually supported these people. You can expect this lack of transparency across the entire org. This company doesn't trust (or pay) its employees enough and relies on helicopter managing to prove to everyone up the chain that the workers are in line. When I voiced these concerns to my manager, he got uncomfortable and got HR involved, to which said HR person took 20 minutes to suggest I should resign. If HR tells you to quit to make their jobs easier, there's no recovery available and I believe the company knows this and will hire people who are yes men and women who are okay with having no negotiation options. Oh, and for every deal you source that closes, you get 0.01% payout of the ACV. Not joking. Additionally, optics have an inflated value where working in the office is seen as dedication, but being more productive from home is viewed as slacking. How you act and present yourself is always under scrutiny, so if you don't fit in the box you won't last long here (while I agree that basic professionalism is boilerplate at every workplace, I say this because "Imagine what people in the office will think of you!" were actual words my manager said to me when I felt pressure to be in the office with a cough). This job has given me immense distrust in managers - namely, the one I reported to - and left me feeling emotionally abused and scarred. I don't recommend working here.
