Pros
Q4 invests a lot of money into treating its staff well, at least when I was there. Lots of great employee perks and a great office in the heart of King West.
Cons
It was a great place to work when times were good. Q4 enjoyed many tailwinds for a period of about 4 years when competitors were acquired and then run poorly forcing clients to move to Q4, when the IPO market was hot, when the SPAC market was hot, when Q4 was making acquisitions. Unfortunately management made the mistake of thinking those times would never end and they over hired. I think that is the biggest mistake the leadership team made, they failed to adequately plan for a slowdown. They rushed an IPO which has turned out to be an epic failure costing the company millions of dollars. Leadership was able to ride the strong performance of the company for awhile and their poor performance was and is still overlooked. The company burns millions of dollars every quarter and is nowhere near being profitable. Revenue growth has stagnated and because of this, the only way to reach profitability is to spread out many rounds of layoffs of the Canadian workforce and offshore those jobs to Mexico. Current employees are just sitting ducks waiting for the shoe to drop. The addition of a member on the leadership team turned the culture at Q4 on its head. It became incredibly political to the point where people go out of their way to praise this person to get into their good books. If you want to succeed at Q4, find out who this person is and become their best friend.