Pros
-Decent Healthcare -Allowed to bring in dogs
Cons
- The pay in unbelievably low. I could have made more working at a coffee shop, yet I needed a degree to work here. I made $13.00 an hour (after a couple raises) at the end of my time. There is no annual raise, not even an annual inflation raise, so employees are basically stuck at what they were hired with. - There is no HR department, or anyone who is impartial when it comes to any concerns you would want to bring to HR. It is difficult to bring concerns to HR since there is definitely some nepotism happening, which keeps staff from being able to bring issues (especially with management) up to an unbiased party. - The workflow went from having so much to do that we were working 10-15 hours of overtime, to having so little to do that we were required to watch tutorials and do "practice assignments" as our hours got cut. - If the office gets closed for any reason other than a holiday, you will have to use a PTO day, or just go unpaid. - Management refuses to listen to their employees. While there, they had us fill out a review asking questions about how management was doing. When the results were not what they wanted, they blamed the issues of the office on the staff and told us to fix them. Some issues brought up during this is that they verbally encourage the staff to ask questions, but become frustrated or reprimand staff when questions were asked. -Training is almost nonexistent and it seems almost rare for anyone to actually make it past the 3 month probation period as a result. Turnaround is extremely high. - Lunch breaks are only 15 minutes, and you will be reprimanded if you take any more than that (Unless you clock out) - It is not a welcoming environment. They do not introduce you to anyone on your first day, or do any sort of welcome lunch or activities. Some of the new staff I didn’t even see until they’d been there for weeks and the company is only about 15 people. - The management gossips about everyone in the office. On multiple occasions I watched people in management get up to go talk with others in management about how annoyed they were with someone on the staff. There are many times when management seems to “pick favorites” who are allowed to speak up about any issues within the company, but anyone who isn’t in that group is reprimanded for bringing issues to the table. The environment there feels like you are in a high school, with all of the gossip, and the management acting like a mean girl clique. -The management can be very blunt, even unprofessional, and it comes off as extremely rude and passive aggressive, especially when the staff has questions. -There is no way to move up at the company unless you "create a new position for yourself" - You are not allowed to wear headphones. - Communication is a huge issue between management. They do not communicate with each other, and ask the staff for different things at the same time, and when confusion happens, the staff is reprimanded. - There are little to no team building activities, or allowance to get to know the other staff working there. - You have to log every minute of your time and report what you were doing for every minute of every day. - There were multiple occasions where the staff was asked to contribute things to the company (i.e., cameras, paper, art) without compensation. -Dogs are allowed, which would be great, but not all of the dogs are well trained and the office smells like a dog's bathroom.