Pros
- Tends to hire internally, which can be good for upward mobility if you are willing to shift into a different career path - PTO accrues at 8.0 hours a pay period after 5 years employed - Mission driven culture can be very fulfilling - Supportive of diversity
Cons
- This wasn't really an issue in my team, but I noticed that there seems to be a lot of mistrust between managers and employees of other teams, which often lead to HR complaints, negative-talk, and micro-management - Pre-covid there was no work from home policy for anyone - Annual merit increase is capped at 3% and managers are discouraged from giving employees high enough scores to make it to 3% - Leadership often loses interest in initiatives mid-way and shifts focus to new initiatives that have competing resource requirements - Directors and other sponsors frequently flipped on key decisions, which would cause confusion as to how to move forward - Although here are women in some leadership positions, it feels very much like a boys club at the top - Negative work environment can get overwhelming at times and contribute to overall dissatisfaction - I was once in a meeting (all college-educated women) where an executive (male) was asked to share our department's roadmap for the upcoming year, and his response was "Oh, don't worry about that. If I showed it to you, it would just make your heads spin." Wow.