Great co-workers, pays below market, CEO is an innovator not a manager, and Nepotism is practiced frequently
Pros
Working from home is great, great software supporting work from home, and no zoom calls. There are pockets of growth opportunities throughout all departments due to high growth. Great coworkers and a work environment that allows you to have relationships with coworkers in a remote environment, I always felt like I was part of a Team. Large enough company where multiple departments are available to reach out to for advice, as long as they h e time to respond because everyone is typically over worked.
Cons
Work life balance is non existent for operations teams like HR, Accounting, Legal, and Finance, the teams are also underpaid when compared to other similar industry teams. The CEO has said in meetings that the Accounting and Legal team is a service department for sales so they aren’t expected to support rather than guide, which in application translates to teams like Sales and Marketing reaching out to Accounting and Legal with unrealistic timelines and expectations and no regard for work life balance, and if you don’t turn around an agreement within their timeline they will move forward without your input or against your advisement and if something goes wrong, you’ll be asked to report on why and told to prevent it from happening again. The C level team participates unnecessarily in the hiring process of middle management and entry level positions in order to encourages and wear down HR to interview and hire their personal friends. Additionally, the CEO is an avid reader and innovator and fascinating, however he tends to pick his favorite book at that time and try to apply the philosophy of the book by telling others to do so, but he fails to empower teams under him to run with the philosophy and the agenda of implementing a new process or philosophy will fail to launch and just cause busy work. Then six months later he will read a new book or learn of a new software and have his team pivot yet again, example is holocracy and using holaspirit which people in meetings would sarcastically joke “oh! A new program to update and forget about, yay!”, or On the Ready which micromanaged how we set up Trello boards between teams but then fizzled away. Additionally, the other C-level that support the CEO are critical of him and don’t lend actionable support, but tend to say what the CEO wants to hear but not perform, which I think lends to failure to launch new initiatives and unnecessary internal strain on staff.
