Pros
- Fantastic Benefits if you are living in WI, if you are remote good luck - Great for entry level Devs with 0 experience in the workforce. But expect to be overworked. - Great training resources - IT managers are great
Cons
- Compensation, they say they are competitive but anyone can go compare 1 to 1 job title to job title and see they are low balling all positions to pay as little as possible. Most cases are 20k lower then market average. (Developers positions) - Career growth is non existent. They expect that you do 10 times what your job title asks of you to even be considered as a long shot to move up in the company. You will be better off getting a few years experience and then cutting ties and going to a company that has real career growth opportunities. - Company hates remote work culture. They try everything possible to avoid hiring remote positions and try to require hybrid at the least. They will require you to travel back to Madison/Cottage Grove 4+ times per year for an in person meeting that can easily be done remote(it was done remote during the middle of the COVID pandemic). - The C-Suite has no idea how to run a successful Software Engineering department. They try to cut costs everywhere and keep the minimum amount of devs they can to get something done, but expect that this same amount of devs to get done 2 to 3 times what is even reasonable. - Work Life balance is horrible, you are expected to be available at almost all hours to put out fires should any arise, and if you don't dedicate every second of your day to the company its looked down on and you will get reprimanded. - They promote the wrong people, people who only fit a specific mindset and criteria. The people who shouldn't have power to make decisions because they either A. Don't have the knowledge background. B. Don't accept the feedback of their direct reports. or C. Don't understand how a Software Engineering division should run. - Bonuses are tied to goals, most of the time these goals are outrageous. If you are in the IT department you cannot affect this goals directly at all, only indirectly by helping keep the front office running, which is really demoralizing. Goals also should never be changed to be higher then what they were at the start of the year, changing the requirements after a goal is met is demoralizing and alienates your workforce.
