Pretty cool coworkers, but expanding too fast to have good management
Pretty cool coworkers, but expanding too fast to have good management
Moments of a start-up vibe, despite the fact that they're pretty well-established. They seem to focus on social events outside of work, which is nice. They also seem to like to promote from within.
As a temp, they admittedly will keep you on forever if they could, without bringing you to full-time, by extending and re-extending your temp contract instead of just hiring you full-time with benefits. Meanwhile, they'll recruit all over Boston at colleges and career fairs looking for new hires and overlook the temps that are already reporting to work every morning.
The carelessness of choosing managers is giving you a bad reputation with the newest hires. With a poor manager, no direction or advice for long-term employment prospects, and average pay, I did not hesitate to move on to a better offer. The company culture is great, but it should be the cherry on top, not the foundation. A free happy-hour drink every other month was not enough to keep me on.
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