Pros
- The office and location are great with a few perks like premium coffee, a finished rooftop, and a couple beer taps on one floor - If you're an FIT design student, this could be a decent opportunity to see how you like the product/UX field through a paid internship. - Except for management, people are very kind. I made valuable personal and professional connections here. - Work-life balance is not terrible but hard to take DTO when you're always anticipating of the next fire
Cons
Most of us could kvetch for hours about this place's shortcomings, but here's the CliffNotes version. H&L has some of the most toxic, maladaptive management many of us have seen. They are like four heads of an ugly hydra. I would say it's two hardened narcissists enabled by two sycophants. Turnover is high thanks to people constantly leaving and nearly annual layoffs that decimate teams and hang years-long projects out to dry. Essential roles are either never backfilled or outsourced across the world -- leaving major gaps in day-to-day workflows. Worse yet, managers celebrate failures instead of "learning their way forward" as they always tell us. This includes openly gloating about a brutal round of layoffs at a nearby bar just one hour after firing about a dozen people. It was sickening to witness but so symbolic of the dysfunction. They take solipsistic pleasure flexing in their little fiefdom with no regard for how it affects productivity and morale. The lack of care and self-awareness on their part is shocking, but sadly not surprising... For those considering accepting an offer here, I'd advise you to proceed with caution and consider your career goals and wellbeing before taking the plunge. Read the recent Glassdoor reviews for Infor, and it's the same story. Pay is submarket, raises are zilch, and management is allergic to investing in people. They treat employees like human brake pads with not much upside for us.