Decent company with high turnover - Anonymous employee GaiaTech Employee Review

My first couple months have been so satisfying. Beautiful offices, caring employees and my boss might just break into the top five of my lifetime. It's a very quiet office until Friday afternoon and then all bets are off. Last Friday was the annual boating excursion and it was easy to spend time with people I don't know very well because they are amazingly friendly.

What's not to like? Amazing people, historic LaSalle St building, riding Metra makes more sense than the Red Line, diverse and odd food trucks for lunch, farmer's market twice a week and Kristkindlmarkt in the winter. This job is wonderful. OK, I'll dig deep....they don't let me use color ink in my printer.

Difficult to come up with many pros to working at GaiaTech. However, the internal training provided to employees is excellent. Co-workers are great.

Raises and bonuses are promised but don't happen and when they do they are almost not worth mentioning. Company only focuses on numbers and how much money you bring in and it does not matter if the project was underbid the employee will get blamed. Internal promotions don't happen because they look to the outside to find people who can bring contacts with them. Senior management has literally laughed in the face of an employee who asked about a promotion. Upper management is a boys club who do not like working women with children. It's an environmental company that does not believe in telework. Senior management thinks employees will take advantage of the company. They expect employees to travel on their own time and take advantage of employees and don't see that they should be more flexible on schedules with all the travel expected by employees. Too many cons to list.