Pros
-Overall: This is a great company for those in senior manager/director roles. There is an emphasis on work/life harmony for these individuals ( especially for those with kids ) -Healthcare, Benefits, 401k Match -Lots of food: Weekly Lunch truck and stocked snack bar Independent learning opportunities: Tuition Reimbursement and Udemy courses -HR team investments in employee engagement-at-large: Employee development days, summer baseball games, Christmas/holiday parties, etc. *Key Point: Some fantastic senior leaders in the company recognize, celebrate, and promote their team members' contributions. Working for one of these leaders makes all the difference
Cons
-Key takeaway: As a younger employee, I wish I had been cautioned about the looming issues with Vistage -Generally speaking: Employee growth, especially among more junior employees is determined by individual departments -Business Development Department Specific: I. Somehow, there was a lack of understanding/rewarding of junior employee contributions. Employees were praised for subjective reasons as opposed to their objective advancements toward KPIs ii. Commission plans were uncoupled from the managerial expectations of junior employees. Junior employees' contributions could lead to team success so that everyone else gets a payout asides from them iii. Senior team members would remove the spotlight from their own poor performance by asking junior employees to do compensatory work for them iv. When I tried to highlight issues around role misalignment/job dysfunction to senior leaders, I was informed repeatedly that my position was not their current priority. In turn, I was fed promises of "future changes" they were working on as a peace offering -Personal Experience with direct manager: My direct manager informed me that I will always have to work with someone I don't like (even if they are disrespecting/bullying me). Also, they expressed that and don't have any grounds to ask for financial compensation for going above my job description (within my sales role, mind you) because my base salary accounts for these efforts. In essence, I was expected to gaslight myself with toxic gratitude in the face of micromanaging, put-downs, and overall career confinement
