There aren't numerous cons but I feel the ones they have are glaring and should be considered by anyone potentially joining the firm. First, during my year with the company I saw the CEO just one time. Now if the company was 1000 people, I would consider that understandable but at a headcount of 300, I considered this unacceptable. I was brought on in a more senior role and expected, at the very least, some interaction with him but literally didn't speak a word to him and couldn't pick him out of a lineup to this day. The oddest thing I found was that during our year end, "state of the company" meeting he did not say a single word, just sat there. Now, I try and stay out of office gossip because I think its a drain on productivity and morale but everyone was talking about this and it seemed like from my peers, a lot of people were looking to make moves outside of the company because of this lack of leadership.
The other major con with the company was how their sales operations and leadership was set up. I would say the managing directors across our verticals were excellent. They garnered a lot of respect and literally payed their dues to get their jobs. The problem was their superiors because they were getting directives and targets that were constantly changing. This scenario made me rethink my employment with the firm. Having been a career salesperson, who's carried a $2.5mn quota , prior to joining, this constant moving of the goalposts made it very difficult to keep your team motivated because your assistants (DA's as they term them) were essentially getting paid less for more work and I as the leader of the team couldn't provide a real reason for this aside from "Well we've had a little turnover so we all have to pick up the slack". Having run sales teams before, to me, this was total BS and I think (though I've never confirmed this) we had these moving targets is due to leadership trying to sell the company and cash out. Thats the only reason in my experience, organizations continually increase targets QoQ and cut costs.
