Pros
- Remote employees are self-guided and given generally flexible schedules. - Benefits are good, and the vacation time is more generous than it is on paper, as you have unlimited hours so long as your manager approves the time off. - There is little accountability, and management levels do not put in the effort to validate employees, so you can put in a minimal amount of weekly effort without consequence.
Cons
- The executive level is broken, constantly making decisions that cripple product development and anger customers. There is more turnover at the C-level than associate level. - Departments are siloed to the detriment of product advancement. Nobody wants to take accountability for a decision so every project and task is bogged down by months of team members saying "Not my problem". - Managers do not manage employees, they manage clients. Far too many managers have several weekly standing meetings where they are just faces for clients to shout their disappointment at, which leaves little to no time to interact with their team or products. This results in a lack of guidance and career development for all employees. - PowerSchool products are 10-15 years behind industry standards, largely due to the company's inability to keep or foster development talent. Many products have seen their top talent and product experts lost due to compensation that is woefully under industry standard or through poorly-thought-out layoffs, with their roles offshored to India devs that lack experience and product knowledge. Companies that are acquired by PowerSchool are worse off than before they were acquired, every time.