Pros
N/A, there are no pros.
Cons
Avoid at all costs. Icon is an extremely unhealthy work environment that starts at the top. Upper management has an old fashion boys club mentality which allows for and participates in verbal abuse. The goal appears to be to make employees feel inadequate and that they are lucky to work at this institution. Furthermore, upper management never changes their attitude since they are under the impression that Icon employees have no other employment options so there is no reason to change. Additionally promotions are not based on merit. Promotions instead are based on tenure or connections. It’s beyond frustrating to work for a company that does not acknowledge or reward employees that actually are performing at their job. Instead Icon offers “perks” such as free snacks. Free snacks are NOT enough and will not solve the deep cultural issues that persist at the company. There also are very few women in very high positions at Icon. For example, there are women who are running departments but only have the VP title. If an audit was conducted focusing on women’s titles and salaries in comparison to males, the results would be appalling. Snow days. Frankly I’m not sure why Icon bothers to send out text alerts. Every text alert that I received said ICON is open. Icon asks employees to either come into the office or take PTO. Since Icon does not have laptops, employees can sign on via VPN and work remotely but working remotely is not considered “acceptable.” Especially when there is the capability to work remotely, it’s shocking that a company would ask their employees to risk their lives to come into the office in a storm. Lastly, I have a hard time believing that the positive reviews are legitimate. It would not surprise me if HR was responsible for the positive reviews since those reviews conveniently seem to follow a negative review. Again the best advice I can give is to avoid ICON at all costs.
