close more doors than this job will open - Reg Counsel Sovos Employee Review

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. Our regulatory counsel roles are unique in that they are not traditional career paths for practicing law. As we stress in these job postings, “Great fits for this role: sharp legal minds who have a love for legal research. Not so great fits for this role: lawyers who are interested in trial law (there's no jury here!) or folks who are interested in being part of an internal corporate legal team. We have a team like that at Sovos; this is not it.” We do our best to make this clear, right from the start, before anyone considers applying. Recruiters and hiring managers also share more about the role and its responsibilities with interested candidates. If you were applying to this role to open doors to a traditional career in law – this was never going to be the right choice. Perhaps the mismatch on your career goals affected your other experiences. Your feedback about our office space and tagline, for example, doesn’t match the consistent feedback we hear – both directly and from anonymous survey results. (As you know, Sovos sends an employee engagement survey every year to collect insights into how our employees feel.) Our employee net promoter score, which indicates how many people would recommend working here, increased more than 20% in the past year. And we are proud of the fact that as a for profit company, Sovos can (and does!) affect the greater good. When we say Solve Tax for Good, we’re serious about what that means for helping businesses prosper and communities thrive. Our technology and services support efforts to close tax gaps around the world, our leadership prioritizes helping employees grow professionally and improve their way of life, and our employees take us up on benefits like charitable matching and more. Recognizing this role did not fit your goals, I hope you have found a career path that does. I wish you all the best. Pawel Smolarkiewicz, VP, Chief Product Officer