Not the best for your mental health
Pros
-Salary and benefits were good (I got like 4 raises without being promoted and several bonus checks) -I got to travel and live abroad expense free -Company car (some employees) -Temporary company housing was amazing -Coworkers were cool for the most part -When they switched to full time telework after the pandemic, I was much happier
Cons
-Lack of diversity -No regard for work life balance. God forbid you have kids and a family at home that you would like to spend time with -Leadership was a revolving door -5 different CEOs during the 8.5 years I was there -My department changed management so often, can’t even remember how many there were -Every time there was a new manager, there was a new direction -I redid the same project over and over like every year -Too many people from abroad given leadership roles and other roles that could be filled by Americans (who probably would do a much better job) -They kept trying to force us to operate the company like they do in Germany which obviously makes no sense whatsoever -Systems were outdated and hosted in Germany - a hot mess -Everything that we did had to be approved by the “International” HQ in Germany -They made so many poor decisions, which is crazy when you consider how long they’ve been around (leading to the closing of several stores) -To insult an injury, they literally lied to us about how well the company was doing at the end of 2022 and then laid off 200 employees 2 months later -People were quitting left and right and instead of doing something about it, they would just dump the work on the remaining employees
