Great employees, great mission, increasingly demoralizing leadership
Pros
It’s a company of people really driven towards supporting the environment and does that really well. Staff are really collaborative, smart and hard working and there are great ways to gain new experiences, improve processes, and grow, especially for someone more newly out of school. The work is really interesting and there’s so much learning you can do in these roles, especially if you’re on a team with a good manager.
Cons
I’ve been at the company for a while now and seen a lot of changes, growing pains, many of which have worked out for the better. But over the past couple of years every communication from management has been misinformed and pretty harsh. The PTO policy is almost offensive, requiring 2040 hours worked a year which is based on working 8.5 hours a day with 2 weeks of PTO and 2 weeks of floating holidays, notably less PTO than our competitors and it doesn’t increase over tenure. However clarity on the policy has been minimal and threats to deny promotions and bonuses based on an unclear policy have been weirdly common, but also questionably enforced. They recently came out with an email announcing that they’d be limiting promotions at the director level, and again it was a really harsh communication. The company is doing well and growing and I understand there’s value to being selective about who is at those levels, but a company wide email scolding people about why they don’t deserve promotions doesn’t exactly inspire confidence or motivation in a group of high performing people. There are other examples of places employees have been given no guidance for years and then are approached with scolding, time sheet policies for one, and I don’t understand why. They staff is great and hard working, and there’s definitely room to be tougher on underperformed, but these messages seem more directed at people doing really well. In addition promotions and salary are based heavily on years of experience and not the actual work being done. Maternity leave benefits are non existent. As a consulting company that fully relies on employees for their success, these seem to be doing the opposite of what it should. I love this company for so many reasons and truly thought I would spend my whole career here, and the last couple of years are really making me question that.
