Great Company with Career Advancement Opportunities
Pros
1. Great corporate culture with "work hard/play hard" and competitive attitude. ISN does a great job planning fun events for all employees and each department plans small team events (bowling, team building activity) to help teams get to know each other. Teams get together for impromptu happy hours/dinners. Most employees are very outgoing, positive and passionate, which makes the environment great to work in. 2. We're rewarded for our hard work with bonuses/incentives based on good performance. 3. Company makes an effort to coordinate volunteer opportunities for employees. ISN also participates in the Corporate Challenge every year (benefitting the Special Olympics). 4. Lots of opportunities to grow in the company - you need to work for it, but pays off. 5. Positive place to work - I truly enjoy working here. 6. Management Team is very transparent with financials, goals, new projects, etc. 7. Positive safety culture - we start meetings with a safety moment and promote safe operations in everything we do. This is an attribute our customers value, so it's very important to us as well. 8. External training opportunities - ISN invests in their employees by bringing in outside companies to train on various topics like 1. presentation skills, 2. soft skills, 3. industry training (i.e. oil & gas awareness), etc.
Cons
Opportunity for more external management training. I've had a few supervisors in the past who have been micromanagers (although this is not unique to ISN - you'll see micromanagers at every company). Although I learned to work with their management style, I think additional external training would be beneficial as some employees may not be able to work productively under that type of leadership style.
