Toxic environment - Programmer PharPoint Research Employee Review

-pay and bonuses are not competitive -benefits are also not competitive for the industry. For example, maternity leave was only paid 60% for 6 weeks - and no paid leave for non birthing partners. Many other CROs offer longer leave with 100% pay. -because of this, they struggle to hire skilled experienced programmers and rely almost entirely on interns to grow the programming department -often, especially as an entry person, you are thrown into tasks with little training and little help or supervision -company is not very sympathetic towards crises. For example: -After hurricane Florence hit Wilmington, they requested workers “get back to normal” the next morning. -encouraged workers who could perform their jobs remotely to continue to come into the office during early Covid when much was still unknown about the virus -Generally not very accepting of different methods of programming (for example: they request you strictly use by processing and to not use sql or arrays) -Certain people in leadership will say negative things about respected employees who have left (to attempt to boost morale I guess??). Examples being “they just cared about money”, “they couldn’t handle the pressure/workload”, “they didn’t deserve the promotion” -one of the company values is transparency but they are not very transparent with employees. Examples: - they regularly request employees do not discuss pay and bonuses (which may not be legal?) - employee departures for respected teammates are often kept secret from anyone outside of management until the employees last day