Amazing People, Great Benefits, But Consistent Layoff and Reorgs - Anonymous employee AOL Employee Review

2.0
27 Jun 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Absolutely amazing people to work with. A lot of passion, dedication, and support. Great benefits and perks. Nice office and work environment. Excited to go to work everyday to see the people, but then the politics get in the way of creativity and motivation. Work from home opportunities with decent work life balance most of the time. Great volunteer opportunities and fun social events.

Cons

Frequent layoffs, job always at risk. Great employees let go without logical reason, all comes down to dollars between finance and HR. Consistent M&A's leading to frequent reorganization of business, inconsistent products, and constant support of legacy systems. Difficult to get anything of value out the door when leadership is not focused on a product, but rather what company to buy next. Upper management way too disconnected from the day to day to see who really gets the work done. Management always makes the next M&A the full focus letting other parts of business suffer, resulting is lost revenue and customers. Too much middle management and employees promoted into leadership way too early.

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