Good people but serious structure issues
Pros
My supervisors and most of the co-workers are great. They're very nice and you can really feel the passions some of them have for the company. They pride themselves on being a proven company, no health industry mumbo-jumbo here. Salary is good. They have a medical stipend but no other benefits. Very relaxed atmosphere most of the time.
Cons
There are serious structure/processes problems. Things that should take short amount of time to get approval for need to go through too many people. I was hired as a Marketing coordinator but my job turns out to be 90% data entry, which i hate and am not good at. I don't think the intention was to deceive more that they really didn't know what they needed/wanted. the person who trained me was the only person who was honest and said there was a lot of admin but i expected 60-80% max. Most of the actual marketing work that i have done, like planning events, has had task split between myself and my canadian counter part. There are serious communication issues between the US and the canadian branch. Communication doesn't flow as quickly as it should often taking days to get approval to print the smallest thing. Also many things are often put off until the last minute and that is the attitude/style there which in my opinion just doesn't work if you want to be a heavy hitter. There is also the unspoken opinion that they just want a person sitting in a chair. I have extremely good equipment at home and would prefer more flexible hours so I have offered several times to use my own (much better) equipment but it has been met with no enthusiasm to say the least. Not a very forward moving company if you care about that.
