Okay place for a first job, but can be, and needs to be, way better
Pros
-VERY good insurance. PPO, includes vision and dental, $500 deductible, insurance plan costs are covered 100% by employer. -6% 401k match (you can start contributing after 1 year of working) -Semi annual profit-sharing bonuses. Got a small Thanksgiving bonus as well, but not sure if this is a regular occurance. -Generous PTO and sick days (10 each), with no need to accrue. PTO rolls over, or can be cashed out. -Company/team building workshops, monthly team dinners -1.5x overtime pay, with dinner stipend if you go overtime -Free lunch (no allergen considerations, only vegetarian options) -Of the 9 hour shifts, you are paid for 8, but lunch is an hour and a half. Basically you get a 30 minute paid lunch and an hour unpaid lunch. -Fairly friendly environment, people are nice -You can leave as early as 4pm on Fridays
Cons
-Low pay. Starting salary is very low compared to market value. Sure we get free lunch, and amazing benefits, but there are other jobs that pay far more for your expertise. I refuse to believe there isn't room in the company budget to pay everyone more. -Unclear job responsibilities, without equivalent pay. My responsibilities were never really clear. I was told to do things that seemed like the responsibility of other teams. Other teams were expected to do the work of my team. In either case, we were tasked with more than what we could be reasonably expected to do, without a pay raise or promotion. -HR issues. They've lost our paperwork, and had to have us, the employees, try to dig it up for them. The performance reviews we do are redundant. We have to do it twice in two different systems for each quarterly review, and it's never quite clear what's expected of us to input. -Raises only happen in January. Feel like your pay isn't up to market value and want to negotiate? Can't do that. Getting offers from other companies? Good luck getting HR to match that offer. -Work-life balance. What work-life balance? They have posters around the office saying not to neglect it and yet: everyone is working overtime all the time, and it is almost frowned upon to leave when you're done at the end of your shift. I get that the nature of this company means that sometimes, deadlines need to be met, but things are not planned out far enough ahead of time, resulting in constant, exhausting overtime work. Big events are "optional" meaning if you don't want to go to one, or can't, you need to use PTO. -HR rarely tells everyone everything directly; rather, there's always a middleman involved, and more often than not, this has lead to confusion or miscommunication on whatever guidelines or directives HR is pushing. -Overly micromanaged. Everything you do needs to be checked with your superiors. Zero trust that you're getting your work done. If it's not busy season and you finish your work early and don't have enough to keep busy, you're going to need to find something to do ASAP, or you'll get slapped with meaningless tasks. Either that, or just drag out your work (at which point you may get a stern talking to about how you're not working efficiently) -In-office days were increased from two to three. I find this unnecessary. The problem is even worse because the office is not large enough for everyone to have their own seats; a hoteling system is used for people to sign up for seats. This would not be an issue if in-office days were kept at two. This issue is exacerbated by the fact that many employees are travelling from over an hour away. -To build on the fact that employees are travelling in from far away: you are expected to be on time. Sure, that's not an unreasonable expectation; but there are NO EXCUSES for tardiness. Traffic on the highway? Car accident causing slowdowns? You're late by 10 seconds because parking was annoying? Too bad. Enough of these and you get written up. Sure, show up an hour early. Then what? You're not being paid to wait an hour till work starts. You're not being compensated for the time you sat in traffic. You aren't getting paid enough, period. It's not worth getting in an hour early just to avoid getting written up. It's reasonable to expect your employees to be on time for work; it's not reasonable to expect them to NEVER be late, no matter what. There is NO leeway. -I have no personal experience with this, but it seems like the interns are treated worse, just because they are interns (other reviews on here seem to corroborate this) -While people are nice, there sometimes seems to be an almost indirect discrimination happening to some people if you are not Korean, and favorites are definitely played if you're a golfer.