Instead of offering employees better pay, they would have company events where there was catered food and things like that. These events were definitely appreciated, but I and the coworkers I had at the time would much rather have had better monetary compensation. "Pizza parties" and whatnot are very obviously a way for a company to ultimately cheap out.
You should take their Glassdoor employee reviews with a massive grain of salt. This company is utterly obsessed with its employee review score and talks about it often, typically encouraging employees to go fill it out any time they have one of their parties. It's not a bad place to work, it just isn't the semi-utopia management would like you to believe it is.
Like many workplaces, you must buy into the company propaganda if you want to be promoted. For all their talk about valuing employees, you will question any business practices or "company values" at your peril.
Finally, I understand he owns the company, but it is absolutely absurd how much management trips over their own feet to please him. We would have the office and car lot in a state that it would otherwise never realistically be in every time he visited. Again, I understand this alone isn't terribly unusual, but we also had to clear desks of things we often used - that we needed to do our jobs - just because Roger Penske is obsessed with a "clean look" literally at the expense of functionality in many cases.
