Pros
Nice offices, flexible lunches, decent benefits, and it’s a great place to put in your earbuds, clock your 8hrs and to be left to your own devises.
Cons
Managers are extremely hands off and provide little or no guidance and no direction which means you really don't know what they want. Reviews are rare making it difficult to plan or set goals with management. The offices have a lot of “locker room” talk with constant cursing and crude offensive and sometimes racist jokes from all levels of employees including management. The pay is not the greatest and not very competitive within the market or reflective of the employee’s experience. Instead, they spend a lot of resources on very nice large open floor plan offices with multiple 70” TVs, random games, snacks, and drinks instead of paying their employees a competitive wage within the telecom industry. They use blanket titles such as Construction Coordinator for nearly all employees instead of titles that reflect the work they perform. Opportunities for advancement are very rare and employment becomes very stagnant. Pay increases are very rare and instead they provide small bonuses to sidestep raises. Management lacks personal skills, and a large amount of management doesn’t know or care to understand the requirements of projects. If a problem arises and you need help in most cases, you will speak to your manager however at PRG this is rarely a good option. There were a lot of instances of management being unable to perform certain managerial tasks and non-managerial workers would have to do the task so that management could do their job which is a reversal of roles. The PTO is calculated in a very odd way, and you have to take it in 4hr increments so if you needed to see a doctor and would leave 1 hour early you had to use 4hrs. Management would also get defensive if you asked to use your PTO. HR at PRG is extremely unhelpful, condescending, and seems to actively work against you instead of providing help.
