Avantages
Top level leadership is impressive. Pay is decent. Benefits are decent. There are perks: employee gym, free Peets and Starbuck coffee, bagel bar on Fridays, free fruit on Tuesday - $.25 sodas, I believe subsidized food at cafeteria - and seems like folks order food all the time for meetings and share it with the rest - and a beautiful campus plus flexible work environment. There are a lot of smart, talented and friendly individuals. Extra holiday provided as long as company maintains best place to work status. Company parties are fun and generous. There is a lot of intent to make this a good place and top management appears to lead by example with is energizing.
Inconvénients
Too much talk about being the best place to work - not enough proactive management to ensure accountability so that is actually IS the best place to work. In Marketing - it's clear the executive team is in disagreement with one another just through the conflicting directions employees receive on the same topics. Plus, the waffling back and forth over the course of months on topics is inexcusable from leaders. At the same time we are expected to work as teams - to conflicting changing goals that are rarely expressed in SMART fashion let along actually measured and adjusted for reality. Escalation of conflict to the managerial level means you are not doing your job - even though the conflict is a level or more above your role. There seems to be a pervasive habit of back stabbing and bad mouthing - disagreements are won in passive aggressive fashion and employees are stuck in the middle. This environment leads to fear - and fear based behaviors are prevalent. There is a lack of trust and also a lot of chatter about how bad it is and a lot of people looking for jobs - and leaving but offering to help anyone else left to get out.