Pros
- Some employees are pretty cool - Product is valuable (in theory)
Cons
- Long, arduous onboarding process - Racism - Bullies employees into writing positive reviews on Glassdoor - HR is condescending and unhelpful - High turnover - Large amount of pointless company calls Just look at the stark contrast of how many reviews either boasting OG as a great workplace, or exposing it for toxicity. You can't get that level of disparity without fake positive reviews or coercion. While working at the company I seldom met anyone who didn't bad mouth the organization when in a 1 on 1 setting. This company destroyed my self-confidence. No matter how much work I put in, or how great of a job I did, I would only hear feedback when it was negative and I was always made to feel replaceable. There were a seemingly endless number of days where I would wake up and question what I was doing with my life, only to have to put those thoughts on pause because I had 9 straight hours of back-to-back meetings. My schedule was not unique, however, as many employees were often forced to skip lunch or using the restroom because of the intense workload. Some of the lower level employees at the company were pretty cool, but upper management was abusive. Through their policies, different departments were pitted against each other for bonuses and were incentivized in very opposing ways. Furthermore, when I put in my resignation I was both guilt-tripped and threatened by management to stay. Sales people sell to customers who aren't a great fit for the product and the implementations team is blamed for customer dissatisfaction, numerous execs attempted to boot the CEO only to get fired, employees throw each other under the bus to get ahead, the work environment is quite cliquey, and the CEO continuously says things like "drink the kool-aid" and "1+1=4" which aren't necessarily awful things to say, but give cult-leader-like vibes. If you need a paycheck for a bit, by all means take the job. Just don't expect this to help your career down the line. The skills you learn at OpenGov are mostly applicable to only OpenGov, or maybe one of their competitors. My biggest takeaway from this company was to be more selective in the jobs I apply to in the future.