Benefits have very high deductibles for US staff, so that's basically a tax on your income. There is a health care savings account that is transferable if you leave, so you don't have to spend everything in one year, but HR is constantly changing the benefits all the time, so it's hard to have any continuity to your benefit plans. All jobs at this firm are temporary and subject to being eliminated at any moment, regardless of title or seniority. In my several years there, I witnessed executives and VP's hired and fired within months of onboarding for no apparent reason. Entire departments shift around without warning. New execs are brought in, and it's musical chairs again, so get ready to dive when the music stops. Rapid pandemic hiring led to a fairly high turnover rate. CEO who had previously served as CFO was recently reverted back to Nicole S, so not sure what that's about. Executive admins are territorial and often backstab product and technical teams. HR pablum included lots of virtue signaling about DEI, constant "black history month" this and "Women's month" that, and other uncomfortable identity politics. This is all a sham of course. Tech team was almost all male, HR almost all female, just like it's been for decades at least in America and Ireland. The main issue many of us were upset was because the layoff included long-tenured employees many of whom were shadow stockholders who were paid a pittance of what they would have gotten had the company sold or gone public. Many were near fully vested too, and this is crushing for anyone putting in 3 to 5 years of hard labour into a company they felt would enrich them later on, only to be mercilessly dumped on the street without ceremony.
