Pros
- Great staff at the entry to mid level, lots of dedicated employees with lots to offer - Decent work/life balance, most days ended at 5 or so without expectation to answer emails off normal hours - Snacks, occasional lunches catered, occasional speaker series to break up tedium - Company is good at messaging its environmental ethos
Cons
- Pay isn't particularly great unless you're ex-military, benefits are crap, and the requirement to live in a HUBZONE area makes life very annoying in the Bay Area - The location in Fredericksburg means you won't be able to attract top talent - Top level staff micro-manages to a significant degree, despite unfamiliarity with most projects. - They take inefficient bureaucracy to a whole new level. Multiple layers of review at every period (we even needed to get meeting minutes approved and posted) - Complete lack of leadership during company crisis, no accountability and reflexive defensiveness - Terrible internal morale and constant turnover - Satellite offices basically ignored (but that doesn't matter, since they were all laid off) - Project managers often incompetent, leading entry level staff to have to do vastly more work - Senior employees treat junior ones like expendable resources, don't understand the value of institutional knowledge. Fired 60 employees and assumed they could just move their projects to other staff without a transition - Fear-based top-down micro-management with employees scared to voice creative thought; EXTREME disapproval of anything that is different or off-template (leading to a lack of unique products) - Deliverables are generally based entirely on a template and lack any sort of intelligent analysis **And for their GIS-specific stuff** - Work is essentially all making basic maps, with little to no analysis - Focus is purely on matching templates for "consistency", but this often distracts from the work and requires significant re-working since the template changes every two days