Good employer - AR Specialist Rise Baking Company Employee Review

nice managment and people to work

i like averything about this company

Market pay for the role, talented coworkers and supportive peers within my team, work from home policy (2 days per week), some effort is made for employee events, monthly lunches, occasional outings, attempts are made to keep the corporate office secure from threats in a questionable area of town.

My team suffers from serious leadership issues which extends up to much of the executive team. There's a general culture of distrust and micromanagement, particularly from management. My supervisor's supervisor regularly takes a direct hands-on approach to tasks and decisions for which my team is responsible, often bypassing my boss and my team entirely and without communicating the changes. Tasks are heavily dictated and not delegated, with little room for engineers' own expertise and input (which often outweighs his expertise). I've not been trained on most things that my role would typically cover. Instead, my supervisor's supervisor continues to do much of my role's day-to-day tasks, outsource tasks to third party vendors, or hire more bodies. Even with clear justification, requests for access to some of these things have been delayed or outright denied. Security drives most technical direction, often overriding traditional boundaries between such teams and without input from said teams' expertise. They are implementing big brother tools on the computers to monitor employees and ensure they are working. The company in general seems to have a money management problem. Leadership can't adhere to a budget and apparently routinely exceeds yearly capex limits. Initiatives important to the security of the company and its data have been placed on hold because we ran out of money. The company grew very rapidly in a very short amount of time which apparently thrust most of the executive team into a scary and unfamiliar new world. The workplace feels cold and silo'd. Everyone is disconnected, people (especially from other teams) don't greet in the halls and avoid it. Leadership is largely unapproachable, the CEO has to be reminded by his peers to talk to his subordinates. The company seems more focused on external image than internal culture. (i.e. They tried to go for "Top 100 Places to Work in Minnesota", I laughed. I've worked at a Minnesota Top 100 employer and Rise Baking Company has a LONG ways to go.)