4% positive business outlook
Pros
Good work environment, majority of co-workers are friendly.
Cons
No training offered. 95% "On the Job" training... which accounts for mistakes and high pressure from management to perform you daily tasks without error. Not much room to grow within the company.
Pros
Treated as an adult most of the time. Allowed to listen to music on headset and complete quotas.
Cons
Communication between upper management and middle management could be a little better.
Pros
Pay was good and location easy to get to. Company acquired by First American Financial, so unknown about benefits.
Cons
People were good but work environment not good. Upper management is faceless and has not concern for subordinates.
Pros
Great co-workers, flexible hours, casual dress code and good benefits package (at least until FA took over),
Cons
The organization as a whole was pretty chaotic due to a lack of communication between upper management and anybody else; the IT and Product groups were very reactive instead of proactive; no room for advancement apart from management's clique of co-workers from other companies.
Pros
Flexibility of hours worked, production bonuses, competitive pay, good pto policy, ok benefits. Coworkers were great and about the only thing that made the environment fun.
Cons
No opportunity for advancement in our division, no job security and as a result low morale. It felt like we only heard negative feedback from management. Some dysfunctional management-attitude against improving processes or creating efficiencies suggested by employees.
Pros
Flexibility and salary. Relaxed atmosphere.
Cons
Layoffs, and ineffective communication from upper management.
Pros
They are willing to hire recent grads, and are fairly organized in terms of development process
Cons
Management assigns work without taking into account developer estimates, and generally assigns programming work with the assumption that you spend 8 hours a day developing. So you have to work 10 hours a day to get everything done. Terrible VPN policy and you're required to show up to work on some weekends. Software developers are assigned blame for bugs and management uses this as ammunition during review periods. Pay is substandard once you get past 1-3 years experience.
Pros
It still has some dedicated employees who are interested in leveraging the company's technological expertise to benefit the mortgage industry and prevent another meltdown.
Cons
Management favors friends from previous jobs over talent or expertise. In other words, if you are not part of the clique, you will not be promoted or rewarded in the same way as "friends and family". You will be allowed to work long hours without recognition and contribute your skills so that others can take credit for your work.
Pros
Generally people are nice. Salary is good.
Cons
Managers have no management skills. Promotion is based on if your buddies with the VP, if not forget about it. Salary increase is getting smaller and smaller each year. So you can stay there with no growth both career and salary. A lot of people mostly good people left and they are not replacing them so the workload keeps on getting bigger and bigger. But instead of management thank you for taking the extra load, they gave you a bad review for taking too long to finish the job.
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