Pros
Unlimited PPTO and (at least in my case) a team that supports it. I've never heard of a request being denied or seen anyone shamed for using it. If you have a high level of comfort with change, you'll thrive. If you love shaping and refining processes, you'll find ample opportunities to dig in.
Cons
Notable cons are that pay is below or at the low end of market value and there are limited to no opportunities to grow/advance. Some employees feel stuck in their position and silos within the organization don't promote opportunities to gain exposure to other areas of the business. What I really want to focus on is CB's response to COVID-19. I don't believe anyone was naive about the huge impact it was going to have on our business. I'll give leadership the benefit of saying that no company had experience navigating such circumstances, so there is some allowance for poor choices, and yet leadership could not even acknowledge that it was, in fact, having an impact. Quite the opposite, they chose to tout the company's financial security and ability to weather the storm and inflate our successes in leveraging our tech for customers in new ways. There was ultimately a mass layoff, which is not unique to CB, but I have to paint a picture of how it was done. Make no mistake, there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. Imagine: You're in the middle of a meeting and you get an IM from a stranger who simply says "Join us on a call now" with a Zoom link. Who is us? You can't just drop out of your current meeting (and you have a client meeting immediately after that one). You respond that you're currently in meetings and share your availability to join at a later time and ask when works best. You get no response back for two hours. In the meantime, you begin sorting through the new clients you were assigned that morning and checking in with a couple teammates about the mystery meeting- you aren't sure if this stranger accidentally messaged you by mistake or you just weren't in the loop on something? Does anyone know this person? Just prior to a team meeting, a teammate responds they just got a similar IM. They, in addition to another teammate, don't join the team meeting without explanation. As you wait, you get 2 IM's back-to-back: one says "I was just let go" and the other just says "Now." You hop on, and are faced with who turns out to be an HR rep from another company and someone from the leadership team. Your HR rep, your manager, and not even your manager's manager are present. They literally hold up a piece of paper and read off a generic statement about your entire work group being let go (false, btw) and then ask if you have any questions. You calmly ask a few legitimate questions to tie up loose ends. Neither person is able to answer your questions because 1) They don't know who you are or what you do 2) They aren't familiar with your business unit and so don't understand what you are asking and 3) It wasn't pre-written for them and approved by legal. You are then told to cease work immediately and that your systems access will be disabled soon, to please not share what has happened with anyone, and that your manager may or may not choose to speak to you before the end of the day. The end. Completely cold. Absolutely no plan for securing work products in progress or transition of work to someone else. You scramble to notify someone that you won't be showing up to scheduled meetings the rest of the day since you have no idea when you'll be booted off and don't want anyone left hanging. Your manager never does reach out that day. The icing on the cake: During a time when there were known difficulties, delays, and failures across state unemployment agencies, I had to wait for the entire window of time an employer is given to validate or dispute a claim to expire before my claim could be processed, as the company simply didn't respond.
