Pros
Some of the co-workers were great, decent office location, good hours
Cons
I sincerely hope that at the time of my death, this will have been the worst job that I will have held in my life. It really can only go up from here. The only thing that I can imagine being worse would be making doorknobs in prison, and that would likely require fewer pointless, dull meetings. The work itself is terribly mundane - mostly scanning documents and data-entry. It requires very little thought and I developed very few skills during my time at EMX (aside from possibly patience with incompetent upper management?). During my interview they asked, "Do you mind occasional travel?" and then within my first two weeks, sent me on a 6-month scanning trip. A nearly 6-month, 5-days-a-week stretch is by no means "occasional travel". Also, their travel reimbursement policy was the worst. They wouldn't even pay for us to come home each weekend...ridiculous, especially given that upper management spent years at Accenture. You think they would have learned something about good travel policy, having spent so much time on the road himself. Just one of many examples of them not treating employees well. There was also a startling lack of transparency within the company. I don't think I fully appreciated how terribly opaque they were until I moved to my new company. I can honestly say that I have no idea how much money they were bringing in each year, much less the size and scope of the projects that I was assigned to. They would give you one task, but would never tell you how it fit into the greater picture. We were never told about gained business, lost business, renewals, etc. I hear they recently had several rounds of lay-offs with no warning - I'm certain this lack of transparency is why people were caught off guard. Hard to tell when you're on a sinking ship when no one's even told you that you're on a boat. There was also a lack of awareness from upper management. Often the blame when projects went awry (too often) was placed on the lowest person in the totem pole. They never took the time to do proper due diligence to figure out the source of the issues, they would just find a scapegoat and move on. It's the responsibility of the managers to make instructions clear from the get-go, especially as requirements would vary from client to client, otherwise obviously people down the line will mess up. Get it together. Furthermore, most promotions were based off of tenure at the company, not actual skill. This led to many teams being run by incompetent, ill-equipped managers (though there were a few good ones). They also didn't 401k match, which sucks. People applying for jobs here, have some self-respect and go somewhere where the company actually cares for the well-being of their employees and doesn't just see them as disposable office supplies.