- The pay for entry level jobs is absurd and not enough to sustain a decent quality of life in a city as expensive as Washington D.C. Entry level employees often have to work a second job or get help from their families to make ends meet. When they raised the entry-level salary, it only went up by 4k and was still lower than 40k. The CEO and execs should be ASHAMED and EMBARRASSED that they are paying their employees so little compared to other companies in the industry that pay employees in similar positions 10-15k more. Even non-entry level employees at NGP are paid less than others at comparable companies;
- PTO (Paid Time Off) and sick leave policy needs revision. They only allow 15 days of PTO a year and since there is no separate pool for sick days, if you're sick you have to take days from the PTO pool. This results in employees coming to the office sick or working from home sick because they don't want to cut into the few vacation days they have. On the other hand, plenty of higher ups and managers somehow have plenty of time to go on trips and take time off whenever they want;
- The majority of managers are either completely unresponsive and unavailable, or not capable of managing. Most of them were promoted due to nepotism instead of merit, which results in a lot of ineffective managing;
- Managers often give entry level employees tasks that don't fit their job description because they don't know who to pawn off miscellaneous tasks on or because members of the sales team don't feel like doing certain things. When employees have tried advocating for themselves in these cases and tried bringing different solutions to the table for completing these tasks, the managers claim that the solutions they propose make the employees' lives easier and more convient, when in reality it's just the opposite. This makes employees feel severely underrapreciated;
- HR is severely short staffed and doesn't have the resources to properly tend to important office needs, for example finding a bigger office space. Some of the HR staff also comes off very cold and unwelcoming, so people don't feel comfortable going to talk to them about any workplace problem they might have.
