The company has a very negative outlook and an incompetent management team. Management practices favoritism and creates a culture of office politics. Some employees who are close to management are given preferential treatment. It’s more important to spend 40 hours being friends with your manager than it is actually doing your job. Many managers and supervisors were selected by upper management based on favoritism instead of leadership experience and performance. Many of them don’t have leadership skills, often micromanage their employees and take credit for work their employees did in order to advance in the company or to protect themselves from layoffs. They also are rarely in the office and claim they are working from home yet ignore emails. As a consequence, many good employees have voluntarily left the company to pursue a better career elsewhere because they are overloaded, underpaid and underappreciated. The turnover rate was already high before the 2018 layoffs, but management and HR have zero concern about high employee turnover.
The current environment is very toxic and cutthroat due to uncertain future of the company, no end restructuring, and massive layoffs. Employees get laid off every other month and the company has no problem escorting long term loyalty employees out of the building without advanced notice. The emotional damage goes beyond the laid-off employees. It actually damages the morale of layoff survivors. Due to significant workforce reductions, management forced layoff survivors to take on more responsibilities and work mandatory overtime. The employees who are doing more with less don’t get rewarded. It actually became an expectation to perform job duties that are not listed on your job description. When employees express any frustration with the unmanageable double workload, employees automatically get signed up for the next layoff or even fired. Managers and HR have turned on great employees and either run them off or fire them for bogus excuses. Most employees are scared to speak out and afraid to contact HR for help because of the repercussions later on. It’s definitely a fear-driven working environment. If for some reason the company remains open and goes through a hiring phase, you should ignore the posting. Management has let key employees go only to realize that they shouldn’t have and hire contractors to fill roles at the last minute.
