Pros
It’s a brand new office — free snacks and cold brew; there’s a gym with showers, Pilates and a HIIT class a couple times a week; “wellness” and mother’s rooms and TONS of conference/collaboration rooms. The facilities is beautiful and easy to get to off I-95. I never had trouble getting to the old office, or the current office. They’re flexible about working from home — there are people who work completely remotely, people that work 2-3 days at home, and people that work solely in the office. This mostly depends on your manager, but the completely is relaxed about it as a whole. They also are flexible about when you’re in the office. Again, depends on your manager but I’ve seen people come in at 10/11am and as long as they work 8 hours a day, they’re fine. The people here are fantastic. I’ve made some long last friendships here, and genuinely enjoy almost everyone I work with.
Cons
Benefits changing — we got an awesome 401K match in January (when executives were privately working on the acquisition) and then had it quickly downgraded when we were acquired. If you had stock in the company, you got what was already vested and then the rest would be paid out over the course of the next 2 years. I’m not sure if that’s standard, but it definitely makes people feel like they HAVE to stay which definitely lowers morale. Everything seems to be focused on going public next year, which is great because more things are getting done by the book and being documented well but there’s just change after change after change, with not a lot of directive. There’s a lot of animosity between each department. Sales doesn’t like finance. Finance doesn’t like engineering. Marketing doesn’t like anyone. We’re one company. We’re all here for the same reason, we all have the same goal. That leads to communication — there is none. No one has any idea what’s going on. It’s not just interdepartmental, NO ONE has any idea what’s going on, until after the fact. Managers (in all departments) need to do a better job of addressing changes and concerns, before and as they happen.
