Pros
- The Middleton location is an interesting building. The central hub called "Town Square" is made to look like several Edward Hopper paintings. Look up pictures if you're curious. The new addition is also similarly interesting. - The Deli serves reasonably priced hot meals, though it was hit hard by the pandemic. - With few exceptions, excellent people work here. - Decent to okay work/life balance depending on where you work. - Benefits are good, though have gotten progressively worse. - In "normal" times, yearly raises and quarterly bonuses.
Cons
- Management ranges from excellent to comically inept, like Michael Scott from The Office bad. - Upward mobility is hard to impossible. Raises are similarly stingy. Bonuses are nice, but not very large. - Working harder is not rewarded. If you end up working here in a salaried position, do not work OT unless asked. You won't see anything from it except extra stress. - Pay is well below industry averages for most positions, even for the area. - The pandemic hit the company's bottom line hard, and they're struggling. I'm not sure how much is due to the nature of being attached to the live event industry or just mismanagement. This has caused management to take a hyper conservative approach to everything which is driving people away. - Part shortages have started to stretch some departments past their breaking point. - Many "mandatory" attempts at boosting moral, which end up being tone deaf and have the opposite effect. - There seems to be a culture of toxic positivity among management and HR. - HR is pretty disconnected from the rest of the company. - There's a culture of "do it fast" regardless of quality. There's been initiatives to fix this, but they've changed little. - A large cultural vacuum was left with the former CEO, Fred's passing. The current CEO's approach is sober minded and business focused which I understand but it isn't what makes ETC ETC.