Pros
Some friendly coworkers
PTO/401(k)/Insurance offered
Laxed dress code
Central location, close to public transportation and tollways
Cons
Non-competitive wages
At the time I quit, all employees had their hours cut due to lack of business (announced shortly before the holidays)
As a result of the furlough, 40 hours of work is expected per week, but employees are only paid for 24 hours per week
Partners insist on hiring new site acquisition people as contractors for the first 3 months, despite the fact that you will be asked to show up to the same place and perform the same tasks M-F, 9-5
Lack of any formal training for new hires
Cross country travel expected with very little advanced notice
Door to door fliers on ring drives, some residents are less than friendly/receptive
Lots of standing around outside in the cold listening to other people decide where the cell tower should go
A lot of cold calling
A lot of 2+ hour weekly conference calls where the same information is repeated week after week
Some managers (not all, there’s some who work very hard) barely do any work and hand off entire projects to their underlings
In my interview, I was told that we could work from home as long as I didn’t abuse it and our work got done; however, that is not the case unless you have an excuse the partners consider to be good enough
One partner has a bad temper
One partner seems oblivious to day to day business operations
One partner shows up to the office maybe one day per month, if that
The Pittsburgh office is highly disorganized, unprofessional, and not self sufficient; as a result, they may dump their work on you