SHI International reviews

SHI leads new hires to believe they will have career growth opportunities within the company. This is false. After years of working here, the only positions available to me are lateral or backward moves with equal or less pay and no prospects to advance. HR spends half their time gatekeeping employees from applying to internal roles (blocking applications from hiring managers), and the rest of it refusing to offer support to people who need it. I know an employee who, due to a severe medical condition, was requested by his doctor to be allowed to work remotely, and went through the lengthy process of getting approval from SHI’s insurance company. HR refused to honor the request, offering no assistance or support.

I'd like to preface this review by pointing out that every time the company comments on here asking for a reviewer to send them an email, it's to a non-anonymous inbox which they could then use to retaliate against you. I have been with this company for over half a decade now and in that time I've seen departments get worse and worse due to a lack of training and leadership from their management teams, which causes them to heavily rely on other facets of the business that were not intended to act as a resource in that capacity. This in turn causes those portions of the business to continually be overtaxed to the point of rapid turnover and a general loss of the skill sets needed to have those teams function in their original roles. Compounding this is a severe pay disparity between the highest levels of the company and the average employee to the point where many are being priced out of the area they live in while being told, whenever the issue of stagnating wages is brought up, it's an emotional response and we won't always see eye to eye. When the "generous" bonuses that SHI gave out as a one time boost for employees wasn't enough to even keep up with inflation are shoved back into employees faces, as if we should be groveling to a billionaire for allowing us to fight over table scraps, it's clear there is a different reality those in the C-Suite exist in. Of course monetary compensation is going to be a point of contention that has an emotional response attached, that doesn't make the subject any less important to have an open dialog on. Company culture is another thing that is constantly harped on as "what employees really care about" when the reality is instead of spending so much extra money on the corporate equivalent of "pizza parties to mollify the drones", they should be investing into their employees. People are not leaving the company in droves because they haven't had as many fun activities in the parking lot, they are leaving for higher salaries and companies that actually respond to concerns instead of glossing over them or gaslighting their workers.