Pros
- Some really nice people in the office who are very passionate about their work. - Location: right near public transport, cafes, shopping. - Since the restructuring, some teams have greatly benefited but not others. - Some flexibility e.g. work from home once/week.
Cons
- Immensely high staff turnover. - Company lacks direction and technical capabilities to progress and effectively compete. - Some managers should never have been placed in a management position - I was never given direction or objectives to work towards. - Management would change their mind at the last minute and always took feedback personally. There was constant gossiping and holding back information from other team mates. This created a lot of tension when trying to discuss professional matters. - Management was largely driven by emotions and the mood of the moment rather than make decisions based on facts and figures. - No training and the company put pressure and 100% responsibility on the individual to develop/train, which was difficult when resources were allocated to wasteful product development or training staff were eventually made redundant, rather than being spent on staff who have real potential. - Pay. - Long hours. - Office "cliques" made things uncomfortable and difficult to break down the silos between and within some departments. - VERY bureaucratic, making it impossible to get anything done in a timely and effective manner. - CEO appeared to turn blind eye on senior managements' failings.
