Low performing, Wild West - Anonymous employee Berklee Employee Review

2.0
Jan 29, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

An extra week off at X-mas and a few holidays. School snow days. Laid back atmosphere. Performing at a high level is optional. New/Different technologies are always being deployed.

Cons

Benefits and pay are not comparable to corporate equivalents. High turnover, low incentive to outperform your peers or even do more than the bare minimal. Metrics and stats on your work are rarely or never given any weight. Most times they aren't even seen by your manager. You will only ever get a cost of living raise and there are no bonuses.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

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Cons

-forced to train the ai bot that will replace you -despite being the top performer on your team and being reassured repeatedly your job is secure, you will get laid off with no explanation or respect -c suite prefers to keep their 500k+ salaries and 80k+ bonuses even if it means laying off 80+ employees who only make 55k -CEO led first layoffs in berklee's entire history, no transparency with any managers, no discussion or anything -CEO used money "saved" from layoffs to give other employees bonuses and buy unnecessary property

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