Pros
- Micromanagement isn't something management has any interest in doing. You're mostly left alone to do your work - If you like the slow pace of federal government work, then you'll probably like it here. - Work/Life balance is great.
Cons
- Salary being paid here is well under the industry average. - Yearly "cost of living" raises are less than the actual cost of living increase year after year, so these "raises" actually end up being pay cuts. I asked around to other employees and was informed of the raise process by someone else who went through it and found out raises were mostly based on achieving unrealistic goals set by management, and that raises could take anywhere from 6 months to two years to be given. - Management is uncommunicative at best and flat out unresponsive at worst. When lockdown started I relied more on who I was working with at the government office to get me a laptop instead of that being managed by Thinking Big, whose responsbility it should have been. The most egriegous example of this happened after I gave my quitting notice. I was told to not inform anyone so they could "figure out what to do". A week later I had to bring this to my team as I assumed this was brought up and my team supervisor (who, I should point out, was also a Thinking Big employee) had no idea I was quitting, a week later. - Since most work is federal government contract, there's not much opportunity to