- Negative Impact on your Mental Health. For the reasons listed, many former employees report severe symptoms of burnout, anxiety, and low self worth even after leaving voluntarily for better jobs.
- Poor COVID-19 response. Laid off half of staff, cut pay of many individual contributors. Leadership shared that they took pay cuts as well, but even so, expect to hear about new luxury car purchases while you are struggling to get by. Don't ask about Work From Home options. Mask enforcement is not happening in office.
- Compensation, PTO, benefits are well below market standards. You will not be paid fairly if they think they can hire you for less. Expect low-ball offers. Meaningless job titles make it difficult to advocate for compensation increases.
- Compensation increases are rare, mostly limited to "Cost of Living Adjustments" that are not reflective of market realities. You will lose salary due to inflation. Good luck getting your manager to engage with you on your compensation or career development.
- Unsafe environment for minority groups. Not overtly discriminatory, but you will face microaggressions, exclusion, and barriers to advancement. Expect the occasional HR-worthy comment.
- Toxic culture of constant infighting and politics. Leaders regularly engage in hostile office politics and make rude or derogatory comments about employees, yourself or others, to your face or behind closed doors. Rampant favoritism & preferential treatment.
- No setup for success. You will be buried in work, given limited or conflicting directions, using outdated legacy systems that are confusing and overly complex with limited or no documentation, and criticized for missing 1 of 100 steps that you were not made aware of or trained on.
- No standardization. Each customer has unique, complex, and largely undocumented processes and pricing structures. Highly manual work environment, lack of technologies to assist, automate, & streamline. Expect to re-build solutions already created from the ground up, often.
