- Sink or swim. No one cares about you unless you're doing something attention-worthy. No appreciation for the steady hard workers.
- Flat structure means the "management" in place have no leadership skills and lack accountability. Don't have a mentality of responsibility, just of keeping their own heads above water. Terrible trickle-down effect, etc.
- Hours are flexible, but there is no compensation for overtime, not even lieu time. And there is a lot of overtime.
- Benefits aren't competitive with Calgary corporate standards.
- Calgary office is open concept but the CEO refuses to expand as staff increases. Literally crammed in elbow-to-elbow.
- Lot of people have been there too long. At the beginning they lived and breathed innovation and risk. Now they live and breath we-always-do-it-this-way. This combined with passive aggressive management and no interest in mentoring or developing new hires means turnover of valuable people.
- Every exec and director have strong personalities and quirks - no balance. They feed off each other's lack of focus and no initiatives of substance get implemented in a profitable way. COO is the exception - very smart but brash management style.
- I'd only recommend DIRTT to people who are ambitious and thick-skinned. It needs serious steering before it gets back on course.
