Workload does not match the pay. Very stressful at times. Projects can change on a dime and, depending on the client, your work life can be quite lovely or very frustrating. Very competitive, if you want to move up you have to be absolutely perfect in everything you do. Contract work, so you're at the mercy of the client. At times it feels like the company sides more with the client than with their graders when issues arise. Innovation seems to get shut down more often than not. You might get chewed out for many things and the positive stuff gets overlooked. Definitely a typical corporate environment where you "aren't really ever good enough". Too often they have expectations of any management person to do workloads too much for one person, or do something that is outside of their role/scope as a manager. Upper management at times will be clever about telling you things to do that seem quite unfair/questionable/unachievable but do it in a way where there is no paper trail and then scold you when nobody can physically do what was asked. It feels like the company might not truly know the real scope of a manager in the Houston location, hence the lower pay-to-workload ratio.
