Avoid if you want job security, dignified biz practices, or organizational competency
Pros
The majority of individual contributors at this organization are great people who are enjoyable to be around and work hard. There are some solid and dedicated leaders in other parts of the organization who want the best for their team and strive to make improvements. There seemed to be an improvement in recruitment in the organization, but most new hires with well-developed and highly skilled backgrounds are under-utilized or blocked from being able to bring what worked from other orgs to Nextiva. The office is nice, and you should like it because they are swiftly marching back on WFH policies.
Cons
- 6 managers in under 3 years (I was not an anomaly in this case; majority had this same experience in my dept.). -Asked to perform work for multiple other departments for years and was not compensated for it nor was it in my JD (don’t know if anyone had job descriptions that match the work they are asked to do). - One performance review in 3 years. - Zero raises/COLAs or conversations about not receiving a raise (had no consistent manager for the majority of my time at the company to initiate these conversations). - Unethical business practices where pushback isn’t tolerated. - Cyclical layoffs and people mysteriously disappearing from the organization (frequently after 1-6 months of joining the org). The last couple of months while I was at Nextiva, I was going through a personal crisis (family hospitalizations and deaths). While being transparent with my manager, I was under the impression that there was an understanding of the extenuating circumstances. My performance was not a conversation nor point of contention. During this time, at no point was FMLA offered but I was swiftly fired for ‘performance issues’ which were never documented, warned or brought to my attention.
