Pros
In fairness, I did see quite a few pros during my time at Summit: *Educational Assistance is rather generous once you qualify *Solid Healthcare/Vision/Dental benefits *PTO builds up relatively quickly for full-time employees *Bonuses when the CU meets its goals were always nice to see *Most of the people are friendly and great to work with *Deep community-focused roots *HQ has a nice fitness center and cafe with reasonably-priced food
Cons
At the same time, I have to note that there were also some pain points that are worth noting: *Pay is advertised as competitive for IT, but it's also not hard to look and find other area companies offering 5-15k/yr more for essentially the same roles. *Virtually no attempts are made for retention outside of management; I've seen talented people go and then followed in their footsteps. *In many areas (with IT being a clear example), the only way to advance is to go outside the company; limited avenues for actual growth, which leads to *Astronomical turnover. While there's a "retail" side that often has high turnover due to the nature of "retail," this is also true in the back-end departments as well *Departments sometimes appear somewhat rudderless at times with conflicting or muddled direction *Trend towards bureaucracy-- lots of SVP/VP/AVP hiring, much of which is coming from outside the company.
