Wages are well under market value, my position which required an internal interview and 16 weeks of training (during which time you are disallowed to use PTO, otherwise you'd be kicked back to your old position) did NOT come with a wage increase.
Forced to change availability to include weekends and holidays even though this was not said to be a thing during my initial hiring interview or even later at my subsequent internal interview for the position I moved in to.
Most hiring for mid to high level positions come externally, even though they market themselves as a startup with internal career growth paths.
Forcing their employees to ramp up productivity to physically unachievable levels (due to the lack of available work and other factors) by leveraging their power as an employer in an instable job market.
Disciplinary actions are unclear and not universal, I was fired ONLY one work day after a verbal warning about productivity (with no previous verbal warnings or writeups) despite my productivity actually INCREASING during that one work day.
Lack of communication at all managerial levels including team leads. Very few 1:1 meetings with team leads about personal productivity/metrics (about 4-5 for the entirety of 2020) even though weekly ones were promised. Our "all the hands" meetings all but vanished after work from home started; issues/frustrations that myself and others had were seemingly ignored entirely by direct managers and we had no outlet to express them further on a company-wide scale.
Post-employment Helm has failed to respond to the Maryland Department of Labor's request of separation information leaving me 8 weeks unpaid in the middle of this pandemic.
