You cannot trust the leadership in this company. We were told in early 2022 that our work from home abilities were going to stay that way. We hired people based on this understanding. It was working beautifully and people had an amazing work life balance. This year they decided to pull the rug out from under us and pull an RTO stunt that sent dozens of people packing and moving on to companies that respect them. What leadership didn’t understand is the WFH abilities we had were the only, and I mean ONLY, incentive to staying here. Other firms pay more, have more PTO, give bonuses, give more than cost of living raises to those who earned it, have cheaper benefits, treat their employers respectfully and do not lie. Our CEO has been caught spreading lies about what other firms are doing in order to keep people from leaving. The “research” they claimed they used that proved RTO makes companies more profitable was also proven false. He claims the majority of the company wants the RTO when really it is less than 10%. We have lost amazing staff since this policy was announced. People who have worked here for 20+ years. Yet, the CEO and COO (who is fairly new to this company) will not back down. What kind of leader are you if you can’t admit when you made a mistake? They talk to us like we are mindless robots. They think we will stay because we are an ESOP. No one really cares about the ESOP money anymore as in a year or so this company will probably be worthless anyway. Our CEO’s legacy will be that he destroyed a once awesome and strong engineering firm. And his sidekick in doing so is the COO.
We have some groups here that have decent regional directors and VPs. But there are other groups that have terrible regional directors and terrible VPs. Those groups seem to be losing the most people. No one has your back here. If you have a problem or an issue with a project or client, or anything really, consider yourself on your own. They won’t provide much help because they don’t care enough about their own groups. This is directly related to how the company is being led. There is no trust in leadership anymore. So much so that for my job function I chose Other because I don’t want them to pinpoint who I am. I’m leaving on my owns terms, not because they can’t handle the truth.
Our recruiter has reached out to several people to post positive reviews to offset the negative ones. That made me cringe. And that should tell you everything you need to know.
You’ll also notice that all of their replies to the negative reviews are cookie-cutter responses. Just ridiculous.
