New grads and senior talent be wary - Short-sightedness and unwillingness to change is rampant here - Associate Director Benchmark Gensuite Employee Review

Zero Training Programs for new hires. Find a way to swim in the ocean, or be minimized and eventually downsized. Zero work-life balance. You will be expected to work way more than a standard 40hrs/wk here. Global footprint with skeleton crew that only permits US based employees to make major changes. You will be expected to attend meetings outside your time zone. Experienced talent, Conform to the way this company does things or be minimized and eventually down-sized. Make waves or suggest processes are inefficient or flat out wrong....minimized and downsized. Employee revolving door. There have been several mass layoffs over the years and several group walkouts in my time here. The most recent being a 10% overall reduction in workforce this past year. Untrustworthy/Ad-Hoc HR (owned by C-Suite; not really employee advocate). Blatant favoritism. Policies are implemented on a whim at the direction of C-Suite, rarely last any substantial length of time, and are mostly held when the company gets sued for something. Anonymous surveys are analyzed to determine the submitter of critical responses. I have known 5 different Global heads of HR while working here. C-Suite has and does verbally abuse employees in public and in front of other employees. Cycle review process has no rubric. Promotions and salary increases are determined by popularity with CEO, C-Suite, and direct manager. All increases/promotions are personally approved by CEO. If you are not promoted each review, that is a bad sign. From top to bottom, there are 15+ "bands" to work through in terms of progression before you hit C-Suite. Company Vision/Workflow ADHD. Entire team will reorg at least once per year to justify raises and title changes. Aging Tech - SaaS products are written in ColdFusion. Underlying hardware is failure prone. Internal Tools are terrible.