Pros
Good work life balance. Depending on your team and manager, there’s certain gems who make it fun here.
Cons
They are so stingy with every single benefit here. Don’t let them lie to you and tell you they have a WFH policy - it’s only for select employees and comes with a LOT of restrictions. PTO is 15 days - they JUST changed it from 10 last year. Holidays are the bare minimum they can give. Even if July 4 lands on a Thursday, don’t worry they won’t give you that Friday off and will make you come in to work. Insurance plans are expensive with high deductibles. No snacks and they actually installed a vending machine in the break room with a large selection of food that you can PAY for. Management is so out of touch with Bay Area standards and refuse to update it. They might have won “best places to work in Arizona”...but that’s because it’s Arizona. San Mateo is not the same as Arizona and culture and needs are different here. When will management understand that? The leadership also doesn’t listen to employees. During the employee survey that went around, it was clear that company and team culture was unacceptable. Nothing has been done to remedy that except for adding more projects onto the workload. Do you know what culture is? It’s flexibility, trust in the employees, competent managers that care about the employee’s career trajectory. You have a TOXIC culture when a flood of employees have left in the past half year, a VP who has worked here for a year hasn’t been able to produce results, and the CMO is so defensive of every single decision that she can’t take other people’s opinions or even have an accurate pulse on what’s going on in the team.
