Pros
• If you are a skilled worker you'll have a good chance to make a market competitive salary, though in the spirit of fighting "entitlement", you'll receive at least part of it through a complicated pay structure intended to make you feel connected to the earning process and keep you grateful to management. • The rank and file are very good people who are good at their jobs. The company prides itself on getting more out of it's workforce than average, and that's possible because of talented and passionate employees. • If you enjoy big showy events, you're going to get your fill here. From the Christmas party to catered lunches once a month, a HUGE amount of money and effort is spent to "wow" you. • Most of the time, it's easy to see how the work that you are doing helps people.
Cons
• If you aren't a P&L leader or in a technical field, don't expect market pay. You'll be expected to consider other factors as part of your compensation: the missional value of the work, the "event" perks (xmas party, lunches). • Get used to hearing how terrible it is to work anywhere else. On at least a weekly basis, you'll be drilled about how bad nearly all other companies treat their people and how their work doesn't matter like it does here. • For a small company (< 600 at the time) they have become remarkably corporate, despite their insistence that resisting a corporate mentality is part of their core values. In recent years, introducing new ideas is incredibly tedious, requiring board, leadership and sub-committee approval, painstaking planning, and the end result is frequently failure and overspending. The agile, market sensitive mentality has been gone from there for years in favor of mass appeal and a "world domination" mentality. • Dave is a strong leader, hell-bent on accomplishing his goals, but that can get sideways sometimes. The internal witch-hunt that followed his discovery of someone bad-mouthing him on Twitter was scary. He literally offered thousands of dollars to any employee that turned in another employee for bad-mouthing the company. He instructed his HR team to infiltrate a private Facebook group of former employees so he could find out what they were saying about him. Then he posted their names and negative comments on the screen during the all-company staff meeting so everyone could know who to shun. And from what I'm reading here, this type of stuff is still going on today. • Speaking of the all-company staff meeting, there was the time Dave waved a handgun around for the shock value of teaching us all that the things we say publicly were even more deadly than his gun.
