All the insecurity of a startup with the bureaucracy of corporate - Anonymous employee Mintel Employee Review

2.0
Sep 11, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent medical benefits. Some great people - a few of them in leadership. CEO is approachable and engaged. Some work from home/flex time - varies depending on responsibilities. IT and HR are friendly, responsive and efficient. Friday Happy Hours. Time flies by quickly because it's so frenzied. I think the company is profitable, but you wouldn't know it from all the budget concerns.

Cons

Reactionary, immature, unprofessional behavior from the highest levels of management – leadership jokes that it's the millennials, but smart hard working professionals come from every generation. People behave the way they are treated, and here, almost everyone who is not at the top is treated like a novice. No development plans past generic onboarding, so if you can't afford the time/tuition to invest your own development, your career will stall here. Management plays favorites, but be careful – you can fall out of esteem at any time for no reason. Cliques, unfocused business 'plan', inefficient work space - overcrowded, not enough meeting rooms or bathrooms or space to breathe and hear your own thoughts, penny-pinching (which is an understatement – the reimbursement policy is archaic), under market pay, dysfunctional atmosphere. The list goes on. The turnover is tremendous, so there's no reason to invest in the great people who are just going to get fed up with the revolving door of colleagues and leave.

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