Not worth investing your time; build seniority with another company
Not worth investing your time; build seniority with another company
Better than being unemployed.
Free drinks in the cafe.
The people are generally nice.
The management could be more clueless, but not by much, since they are approaching absolute zero.
Insane pressure to meet ridiculous schedules set by incompetent managers. The bathrooms in C7 are too small and smell pretty bad. The new cube configuration is a mess; the walls are so low there is no privacy.
Low morale due to long hours and poor T-Comp. Most employees would leave if given a similar job at another company. The stock options are worthless. Sub-par employees are made managers because of the people they know or of the pictures they have.
Listen to feedback from employees in the trenches.
Follow your own practices. I had the ‘Effective Meetings’ class over 8 times, and not one meeting followed the class guidelines. I would routinely ask for an agenda for a meeting placed on my calendar, but was rarely provided with one.
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