Pros
Company: Next time there is a review you can go online. Marketing team is a good group, fighting the hard fight in EMS. Reduced investment in innovation makes their job harder. Personal Experience: Systems and Supply Chain experience plus marketing events like CES. I can hide out with customers and not have to deal with the school yard dynamics of the VPs.
Cons
Company: For the last few years it seems like it has gone from full attention to fading attention. Our competitors steal / win our customers. The VPs seemed so stress, one had to go see a therapist due to reorgs. Pressure is intense. Hard to see your boss going through hardtimes (at work!).Joke we share: 5 characteristics of Company Leadership Style - Think Stress, Analysis Stress, Execute Stress, Fake Not Being Stressed, Measure Stress Personal Experience: The reason I'm motivated to write: I am a new parent and the support has been lacking. I have been surprised by the gender attitudes towards new mothers and fathers (men are given a hard time). I work 50-60 hours plus 15 hours commuting. There is no flexibility and there is no culture to support flexiblity. There is a group of us that gather for lunch and I'm tired of the constant complaining and poor treatment (the friends are great and I worry they will be leaving one by one as the company is having hard times).