Pros
Benefits decent, fortnightly massages, healthy get fit program with in house trainer
Cons
- US centric business and rest of the markets an afterthought (No they are not truly global) - Very siloed and the AOL culture has been lost especially since Microsoft management came over - Big pay differences between same level staff - Stagnant growth; no career progression and no pay rises - Massive redundancies just before Christmas to disadvantage staff as there are less working days to work out consultations and internal opportunities - Rationales for some roles made redundant are ridiculous, have no merit and shows they do not even know what the individual does in their role - Label roles randomly with titles never used or officially given to justify uniqueness and thus redundant to protect ex-microsoft staff - redundancies affected a majority of true blue AOLers and only a small minority of long tenured Microsoft staff > no knowledge retention - announced that redundancies were not about talent but yet made no effort to reduce redundancies internally and converting contractors to FTEs - many in management have a poor understanding or knowledge of legacy products