Pros
Remote work and the benefits are good
Cons
You've read about the layoffs. Those happen in a lot of companies. How they do it has screwed the enterprise. The people to be let go as part of the RIF is decided at the vice president level, not directors or managers...the VP who sorts the list of people by how much they are paid and they RIF the people at the top of the pay scale. The company hardly has any SME's left. Common practice for the only person who knows how a system works to get RIF'd. The company has more or less lobotomized itself. Ability to turn up new service and keep existing systems working has been gutted. Infrastructure is failing due to age. Many critical systems and platforms are 20 years old in many cases. When a platform is retired from being many years past end of life, it is replaced with used equipment that is also past end of life but not as much. Replacement parts are bought from ebay. New CEO is an improvement over the one that was fired a year ago, but her big changes has mostly been hiring on additional presidents and VPs. The company is very top-heavy. She's changing the culture of the company based off of a self help book called Dare to Lead. The obsession with this book and the lady who wrote it is approaching Kool Aid cult levels. They just restructured the companies debt. This was after the stock hit 80 cents a share. The creditor are going to end up owning what's left of the company in a couple years. The asset sale to Apollo wrecked the enterprise. All of the free cash flow came from the ILEC that they sold to them. If you take a job here get as much as you can when you start because you'll go years before seeing a raise, and what you get won't be a lot. They fired all of their recruiters a few years ago and turned it all over to "Hirevue" which is a data mining outfit that in order to even be considered for a job, you have to make a dozen tick-tock style videos for them and play some games. And they wonder why qualified people won't apply here.
