Avoid! IPO overshadows employee growth and stability - IT Technician, Contractor Wella Company Employee Review

Frequent restructuring and layoffs have created ongoing concerns about stability among employees. Some departments have heavy workloads due to lack of staff. A large percentage of staff have been there for less than 2 years! Good if you want a short-term gig, risky for anything more. Career growth in IT is very limited as there are few higher titles available and promotions take much longer than at comparable companies, if any. Upward mobility is slow and make sure to document any talk of promotion or conversion. HR blames IT for their own onboarding technical problems and tries to push responsibility on to them. The contractor-to-permanent conversion process was poorly coordinated between HR and IT. Salary was initially communicated incorrectly and later corrected, but the revised offer was presented as final even though it was at the bottom of the stated range. When I reasonably negotiated, they suddenly rescinded the offer. Leadership really thought I would train my replacement. During a four month period when IT was without a manager, I was the only on-site IT support and kept all operations running while completing a backlog of work left by the previous manager, including tasks outside my experience. Despite this, leadership later dismissed my work as having little value, which was discouraging and raises concerns about how contributions are evaluated. Leadership is responsible for the low-retention rate in IT.