Great co-workers, awful management. "Learn by fire" type of mentality, old school stubborn individuals.
Pros
Hire out of college for cheap, work in position being transitioned around different departments, which is a good thing for exposure. Alot of high end projects and opportunities given if you want. I loved my co-workers and that was the best part of being there on a day to day basis.
Cons
1) Cheap cheap cheap. You need to remind management of your upcoming "performance review", which by the way, happens every 13 months. In theory, we lose an entire potential raise every 12 years, which saves them $. 2) 401k is abysmal. No need to discuss their .35% contribution, which was previously risen to something not remotely competitive with today's competition. 4) Health care was OK but expensive. Responsible for the remaining 50% (When laid off due to Covid, COBRA was almost $700/month!!) 4) HR is worthless. If you have a problem I would advise a counselor through your insurance as they would most likely pay more attention than them. SERIOUS revamp needed. 5) Please eliminate 1980 AS400 from the system, its way too far outdated. Invest in software upgrades, its the 21st century. 6) Managers have literally no clue what they are doing half the time. Mind if there are fantastic managers both interpersonally, financially, and downright common sense-wise. 7) People need better raises, sometimes it doesn't even match inflations 2%. >5% need to go to corporate. Quarterly bonuses literally bought me two 36 packs of coors after taxes. 8) Competition within divisions. Always boggled my mind why there would be dirty water between divisions with a common goal in mind, to make money? How is this simply not common sense to create unity and a sense of "team" within the business? 9) Upper management puts on a great facade to seem like they care about your opinion. In reality, it isn't about the individual employees, its about their large bonuses and salaries. Just check out the CEO and VP transactions on finviz.com or some financial data source. They buy and sell their own company like clockwork, ironically buying and selling at just the right times... hmm hmm.
