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1.0
2 Feb 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits is probably the only thing to tick into "Pros". Everything else is extremely skewed in very professional manner.

Cons

You will find racism under the wraps of professionalism You will find people of certain color and race being promoted You will find favoritism under the wraps of performance reviews You will be presented with "token" hires to show diversity You will find that highest turn-over rate of certain "kind" of people If English is not your first language, you will find it extremely difficult to adjust (read perform and meet expectations)

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5.0
7 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

micromanagement at every level and job is boring at times

2.0
4 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good salary, guaranteed bonus, opportunities for overtime

Cons

Management changes constantly, managers are either fresh out of college or have never done your role or both, so I felt like I was managing myself. The metric standards are so high you have to essentially be perfect month after month. The standards are completely unrealistic, robotic, and leave little room for a bad day. There is PTO but you are only allowed to take it if there are “available hours” for that day - everything is about capacity and squeezing out as much work from as many people as possible. Taking time off affects your metrics for the month, which I did not know until after I took my first week-long vacation - they are always looking at your performance in terms of the past year, so I had to try to overwork and correct the bad month I had, when in my opinion your PTO should be completely YOUR time and have no adverse effect. Mentally and physically strenuous, whether you are on the warehouse side or office side - go to the bathroom too many times in a day and it will become an issue - they expect you to be glued to your desk/post. Like I said, no room to be human.

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