Pros
* Excellent place to work if you’re looking for a great work/life balance. * Smart & Friendly staff allows for great working relationships and potential for friendships that extend outside work * Stable and Financially secure company with excellent long term growth plans and opportunities * Ability to learn, with educational reimbursements available for job training or graduate studies * Early office closing around major holidays. * Efforts to modernize office environment, technology, tools and best practices.
Cons
* Hold more opportunities for collaboration between leaders and employees. Felt out of the loop and disconnected with senior management. Senior management operates in a 2nd set of "locked/closed doors". * Heard lots about the available cash flow and available cash within business (to invest, acquire etc.) but purse strings are held sometimes too tight and provide perception that it’s all talk and little action. *Terrible at communicating to employees. Difficult executing vision leads to aggressive action or lack of action or confusion over what to do. * Over my tenure, I started to feel undervalued and not appreciated. Very much taken for granted and quickly grew out of role with no place to move within organization or plan being offered to grow. I did attempt to open a dialogue but I don’t feel it was taken seriously. * Pay and performance were not balanced. Leaders have been unclear on how to present the benefits of the program other than to say "It's to treat compensation more fairly and not reward those who have stayed with the company for an extended period.". This has resulted in talent leaving the organization and has created large gaps. * Lack of Information Technology team and overall investment in technology. They keep cutting IT folks and reorganizing. Technology projects take longer to deliver, have difficulty meeting expectations and therefore suffer with a reduced set of deliverables and cost overruns. * Due to a stagnant refresh of some technologies, I started to see competing technology and options and a shift in management focus to the hot tools of the week. No cohesive single-sign in or larger narrative is being written which results in business unit after business unit attempting the same projects within their teams with either marginal success or no success.