1. Complete lack of transparency from leadership that has only worsened over the last 2 years, despite empty promises to improve internal communication. Teams are disjointed, and vital company information is disseminated in a messy, disorganized manner. This creates constant confusion and leads to the spread of misinformation, meaning you’ll often get contradictory information from different sources. Since change is so frequent, it’s incredibly difficult to determine who the correct point of contact is for basic questions or information outside of your own department.
2. Poor leadership, resulting in abundant layoffs (at least 3 this year, but I’ve literally lost count of how many there have been within my full tenure here), frequent organizational restructuring, constant change in areas of responsibility creating chaos and confusion. Connecting to the lack of transparency mentioned above, the reasoning behind major decisions is rarely explained in an effective manner. Executive leadership is deeply, deeply out of touch with the rest of the staff and seemingly makes the majority of decisions without consulting anyone that would be directly impacted by them in their day-to-day work.
3. Limited opportunities for growth. Again, lack of transparency is a key problem here, particularly around promotions and the decision making for those promotions. An employee could have stellar performance reviews for years, and it’s still like pulling teeth to try to elevate them for a promotion. Same with fighting for comp increases.
4. Poor compensation and benefits. Salary isn’t competitive and it’s difficult to negotiate increases, even for top performers. Health plan is expensive and not the best for the price you pay. One of the most significant benefits at Recruitics used to be the flexibility and the ability to work 100% remote, but they’ve recently announced a return to office mandate (after 4 years of WFH) that completely obliterates that benefit and has also sunk morale lower than it’s ever been since I started, including when COVID was just beginning. No credible explanation was provided for this move, which directly goes against leadership’s previously positive stance on remote work. Obviously a move made as a silent layoff (so employees to jump ship “voluntarily” and the company avoids paying severance/unemployment) and due to investment in commercial real estate and unnecessarily large office spaces that shouldn’t have been leased in the first place.
