Pros
- private healthcare - loads of talented people - can easily move around to try different teams - I’ve had some of the best managers I’ve ever had - DE&I teams show that people truly want the culture to improve and it’s a privelige to be among them Take this as a good or bad - so many teams at Ingram have different cultures so if you’re unhappy with one, you can go to another.
Cons
- don’t focus enough on defining organisational culture. Senior management don’t ‘get’ DE&I. They profess that people get ahead through hard work and performance yet hire their mates. - processes and tools used for marketing and sales are draconian, there’s no focus on making marketing a well oiled ROI machine - marketing is under paid and under appreciated - the working culture celebrates working outside contracted hours yet doesn’t remunerate employees well in pay or empathy - ‘Big Boys Clubs’ form without much intervention - Very corporate and hierarchical - you can get a very very bad manager, and you can get very very good managers - there’s too much of a difference between teams and no emphasis on what an ‘Ingram manager’ is - poor salary for what you do and there’s a massive difference between regions and global.