Pros
Excellent work-life balance. Outstanding direct managers who encourage and inspire (or at least, up until 4.22.21). Excellent, engaged coworkers who are commited to doing the right thing. Refruiting Excellence team is chock full of great trainers and leaders.
Cons
The business seems to be determined to dismantle an HR system that worked perfectly, and uses the imaging of a sinking ship in the Arctic to communicate this, rather than simply being transparent and saying, "Many of you are going to lose your jobs, I would encourage you to start looking." When we first came on board, we we encouraged and energized but now are defeated, sad, disheartened.... and the $$ that he spent on some strange "change management" firm to tell this utterly bizzare tale would likely pay the annual salary of most of us. Very wasteful. But hey! It paid to eliminate a whole bunch of HRBPs who were utterly loyal to the business. The HRBP function was centralized and now it takes literal days to get a response on an HR issue that would take no more than one hour previously. On the 22nd of April, a gigantic slew (12+) of dedicated, caring, thoughtful, motivating managers were also eliminated. I do understand that we were a bit "top heavy", but to eliminate the direct managers who motivate and inspire your recruiters, who basically are the lifeblood of USB? To..... hire more Executive Recruiters? WE NEED RECRUITERS in the ranks (where hello, a bulk of the hiring comes from) we are all drowning, and now we have..... what? A promise of something new and great? ? We WERE GREAT ALREADY.
