1.) Southwest lacks diversity in leadership roles and actively overlook POC for roles when considering Senior Manager and above positions.
2.) Southwest is a place where you will have to spend 3+ years before you are promoted. Promotions are not based on hard work but rather who you know.
3.) Working hard and creating great work does not matter at Southwest. What matters is who you suck up to. That is the only thing that will get you promoted.
4.) The culture at SWA was really fun when I first joined 5 years ago. But since then, consultants have taken over the company and the company culture has changed for the worse.
5.) In past years, we use to be at the top of the "Best Places to Work in America" list. We've dropped a lot. Internal Employee satisfactions scores are ABYSMAL.
6.) For the past two years, most of us worked from home. WFH policies across the department are not all equal.
7.) There is no work life balance. During COVID, most of us were working 12 hours a day.
8.) Salaries are ridiculously low. On average, someone in my role at SWA makes about $115 to $130. That same role, people outside of SWA would make about $150 to $165.
9.) We have flight benefits but no PTO to even use them.
10.) It has become a revolving door at SWA. They only talk about who they are hiring but the company is bleeding heads and no one even mentions. Literally, I hear about 2 to 3 people have left the company on a weekly basis.
