Toxic environment with incompetent management/senior/executive level staff
Pros
Easy to get hired--company hires inexperienced people and elderly folks who should have retired or been fired many years ago. Good place to end your career.
Cons
Severely dysfunctional and toxic environment that burns out good people and enables incompetent management/senior and executive level staff. One of the biggest problems is the folks who have the power to make positive changes don't want positive changes. Questionable business ethics and executive officers. Nepotism is not rare at this family-run corporation--family members strategically placed in key positions. Incompetence is supreme here, especially at the top. Management styles swing from negligent/absent and hands-off to micromanaging, hostile, and overbearing. Managers will not back up/support staff. Extreme lack of team spirit, morale, and opportunities for advancement. Lots of one-up-manship and throwing your colleagues of all levels under the bus. A history of rewarding staff who exhibit negative attributes and bullying behavior. This type of "research" work is made up of mind-numbing, repeated, and mundane tasks. Benefits have been downgraded and now staff must pay a portion of them. Unfair and unclear promotion, raise, and bonus policies. Most of the good, loyal, and competent staff left by the end of 2014. This is not a place you want to stay very long if you must accept a job here. Lots of former employees vacated their positions without first securing other employment--it can be that bad.
