-The company's COVID-19 response was incredibly irresponsible, reactionary, and patronizing until PHMDC and the local and national media got involved. Employees were not listened to, gaslit, and censored if providing organized feedback via internal avenues. Improvements to the policy always came last minute without proper notice after local legislation mandated additional measures.
-Vacation policy is lacking relative to the tech industry. Sabbatical is effectively back-loaded vacation.
-Anti-labor see Epic vs. Lewis. Additionally the COVID-19 response changed just as unionization began getting discussed and worker advocacy groups began getting involved.
-Training is hit or miss if it will actually prepare you for what you will be working on. You may end up needing to teach yourself or completely relearn proper development depending on how different your focus will be.
-Very ambiguous to what the culture exactly is and how they intend to promote it. Claims to be about encouraging feedback, but incredible lack of transparency regarding pandemic response. Many feared retaliation for dissenting and based on reports from the media they were justified.
-Other roles have less support with the work life balance and have to regular put in 50+ hour weeks.
-Poor transparency when it comes to internal rankings (used to determine raises) and company policies. During training I was told to not discuss salary with others which only benefits the company.
-Limited managerial growth opportunities, lack of external position levels (they have internal analogues to SD I, II, etc.), and fairly outdated tech stack may inhibit career growth.
