Toxic working environment & poor management - Consultant Engineer FM Employee Review

1.0
Dec 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

pension, 401k match, company car

Cons

Not sure what has happened to this company.. All the reviews of how the company has horrible management, no work life balance and a toxic working environment is 100% true. When you first start here, management tries to make it seem like it's all sunshine and rainbows because of the amazing "benefits" you have. In reality, the company is a toxic working environment and people are constantly leaving the company, especially the field engineering role. The company is promoting unqualified employees to fill other positions, who have little to no experience. Employees are being promoted to managers who have no idea what they are doing and causing people to run. Managers choose favorites and gossip about everyone else at the office, as if we are back in high school. If your manager does not like you, they will bully you and do everything they can to try to get you fired or have you quit. You are constantly micromanaged and questioned about everything. You will not be able to grow within the company. Going to HR does not solve any issues because it is just another tool for management. When I told HR about how my manager harassed and bullied me, the only thing HR did was "acknowledge my feedback". The company has had two bad years in a row, and are taking it out on the field engineers. Stop promoting field engineers to positions they are not ready for. Give field engineers an incentive to stay in the field. Why do you think there are so many losses now? I would not recommend anyone to come work here. It is a hostile working environment and managers expect you to work all day, even weekends, to get your work done. This company will definitely be sued in the future for what they are doing to employees. The best thing I ever did was leave this company.

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Cons

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Pros

* Great business model at the foundation * Solid compensation program: Base salary + bonus * Sustained high profitability over the long term * Stable employement * Pension Plan

Cons

* Extremely hierarchical and regimented * Promotions based on favortism rather than true merit. Employees are precategorized and stigmatized on their ability for future career progression. * Extremely focused on metrics and internal objectives. This leads to box checking, cutting corners and bending rules to meet the numbers. * Extremely heavy workload. No work-life balance. * Management doesn't really incorporate employee feedback; they pretend to to check a box. * Quality of job suffers to keep up with quantity. Everything is becoming data driven and the data is often wrong. Enormous pressure to hit a button and accept at face value whatever the system spews out. * Our CEO builds fancy gold plated office buildings that aren't needed and pulled the plug on hybrid work to justify the investment in the real estate.

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