Pros
There are some really good people here, and you’ll probably learn a lot because everyone ends up doing the work of multiple jobs. The company has a decent reputation in the industry. Most employees are just trying their best to keep things moving despite the chaos.
Cons
The workload just keeps growing with no real concern for balance. If you’re competent and dependable, you get rewarded with even more work. Roles are very unclear, and it becomes “can you also handle this?” over and over until you’re juggling way more than what you were hired to do. There are too many people giving input on projects. Simple tasks turn into long approval chains with conflicting opinions from people who are not actually doing the work and are not qualified to be providing input. It slows everything down and makes it hard to accomplish anything efficiently. Priorities constantly change, projects get piled on top of each other, and employees are expected to just absorb the extra workload without additional support. It can feel very reactive and disorganized at times. There is also very much an “old boys club” culture in certain areas of the company. Leadership and decision-making can feel heavily influenced by family ownership dynamics. At times it feels like some employees are held to completely different standards depending on who they know or are related to. Communication and recognition are lacking, and morale suffers because people are stretched thin for long periods of time. A lot of employees seem burned out but nothing really changes.
