Pros
- Union membership for most staff members
- Decent benefits
Cons
- Terrible management from the top down. Stephanie is herself a good leader, but seems to find it impossible to hold her C-suite reports accountable even when they have demonstrated themselves to be both incompetent and destructive to team morale.
- Nothing is ever communicated clearly or well. Deadlines are moved, stories are changed, without even a “fyi.” Company policies are announced out of nowhere or are completely contradictory to employee wishes.
- Absolutely garbage performance review process. You’re told a year after the fact what the expectations for your job actually were—and of course, those expectations will change again six months later. The company also actively discourages managers from leaving positive reviews, so employees are left discouraged and unrecognized.
- A general culture of snippiness, passive aggression, and nastiness, sometimes devolving into outright hostility.
- All the senior managers seem more concerned with checking Twitter or talking about the latest cool story they read (because everyone needs to know how erudite and in-the-know they are!!) than actually managing, developing, and supporting their people.