Pros
- Corporate employees get $100 in free Chipotle every month. - Casual office environment and no dress code. You can literally wear your bathrobe to work if you wanted to. - Annual teambuilding trips (i.e. Las Vegas, Chicago, Denver) - Free chips and Salsa every Thursday. - Benefits are ok and comparable to what’s being offered at other companies. - Sabbatical offered after every 10 years of employment.
Cons
- No work/life balance. Literally, zero. The store managers are expected to work a minimum of 50 hours each week; it’s the same type of mentality in the corporate office. Very lean workforce. This would be a very difficult place to work if you have small children and it would be virtually impossible if you happened to be a single parent. - You’ll work primarily with entry level college students who lack work experience. There’s something to be said for bringing in new and fresh ideas but if you’re over 25, you probably aren’t going to be hired. The office has a very juvenile, high school feel to it. - Not many advancement opportunities within the Columbus office unless you’re willing to move to the Denver HQ. - The company is very focused on their vision of “being top performers empowered to achieve high standards.” This sentence will be stuffed down your throat from day one and you will hear it ALL THE TIME. What they mean by this is that "just" doing your job and excelling at it is not enough to receive an above average review at the end of the year. In fact, it’s the equivalent to being one step away from being fired. In order to be considered a “Top Performer”, you not only have to excel at your job but you also have to come up with projects and efficiencies that will save the company massive amounts of time and money. You likely won’t have time to work on these projects during the day so this is one of the things you’d need to work overtime for. - The company offers paid holidays but you’ll only have the day off if the workload allows. When I was there, we worked from home part of the day on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas and we worked in the office on Memorial Day and Labor Day. This will vary by department. - Pay is very low when compared to the extremely high expectations that they have. - Paid time off is not competitve when compared to other companies.