Pros
Work life balance is decent, small company allows you get to know your co-workers intimately.
Cons
First things first - notice how the 5 star reviews on this page are extremely brief and devoid of content, some making zero sense. The leadership team is artificially inflating the reviews to hide the truth. I was very excited to get hired here, as I really connected with my superior, but the problems started to become very apparent very quickly. For a Human Resources company, they cared very little about professionalism. I can take a joke, but there were often uncomfortable ones made about women, religious minorities, etc. It is incredibly hard to speak up when there is not a lot of diversity in leadership, especially diversity reflecting the makeup of the overall company. What they did care deeply about was the image they were crafting. They wanted to be seen as a real player in the HR game, so they would cling to whatever trend they saw online, while failing to implement those trends with the staff. They would constantly post articles on LinkedIn about the value of pay transparency while actively discouraging pay transparency among team members. They would post about how employees who take their PTO are happier and more productive, but would try to guilt anyone who needed to take off for serious reasons while leadership was able to take off on a whim. We were also promised raises/bonuses that did not happen, our paychecks did not go out on time, but we were told to be grateful for a $50 gift card on Christmas. Then comes the issue of the company’s declining financial health. For a company of 20-ish people, we started losing staff at an alarming rate. We were not told that these were layoffs, instead that all the people that were let go were done so because of “performance issues”. Blind-siding anyone who was to be part of future layoffs and leaving them to wonder if they were being slandered in their absence. When you are laid off at ADDA- you get just hours of notice, an embarrassingly small severance package and no warmth from the leaders who claim to be cultivating a people-first HR company.
