Pros
Decent pay, 401(k), nothing else
Cons
- Highly political. All that matters is who you impress. Leadership is incredibly obsessed with optics. It’s all dog and pony. The CFO is only focused on the most superficial items (when he’s not talking about himself) and never focuses on work, knowledge and quality. - Far too many incompetent employees. Honestly, I don’t think 20% of the Finance staff have a clue what they are doing. They are constantly makes mistakes. - You are always fixing someone’s mistakes and they keep making them. You would almost think it was their job to make mistakes. - Leadership plays favorites and they aren’t subtle about it. I’ve seen people ignore emails, make major mistakes, lie, but as long as they parrot the cliche business jargon and brown nose, they are leadership’s favorite. - Did I already mention leadership’s uselessness? All they do is set up meetings to book up their calendars and look busy. - Lazy, lazy, lazy staff. I think I can count on one hand the number of people who I’ve worked with who were not lazy. - I hope you enjoy tire tracks because you will be thrown under the bus a lot. And they plan on running you over. - Your hard work and efficiencies will not be appreciated. All they will do is give you someone else’s work, while that person does close to nothing. - Incredibly superficial. They will thank a highly compensated consultant for doing next to nothing but not say a word when you worked all night to meet a deadline. - Unfortunately, most companies are just as bad.