Pros
Everyone gets a standing desk.
Cons
These are mostly specific to the IT division. (Do It Best is heavily split along division lines in terms of culture and business) -Pay. The pay is awful for the industry. If questioned, management just says "oh, but we use Gartner Reporting so we know it's at the right level," and won't brook any discussion past that. When I left to do essentially the same thing at another company, I instantly got a 35k bump on my base salary, not even accounting for the more straightforward benefits/bonuses I saw. More on pay below. -Poor Top Management. The new senior management over IT has no sense for how to run an IT dept, let alone a corporate office. The publicly available qualifications of IT top management (one step below company president) do not align with an IT dept at all. The current top management believes the dept. should be ran like factory/plant from which they came. - Too much management. DiB has this weird chain of command that really steps all over itself; From top to someone like I was (pardon if I forget the actual title), it's: ----VP Tier 1(aforementioned) ----VP Tier 2 ----Middle Manager Tier 1 (x3 individuals) ----Middle Manager Tier 2(x5-7 individuals) ----Project Manager (sometimes IS the tier 2 middle manager) Basically there are way too many managers for the 30-45 (depending on lively turnover rate) engineers, devs, scrum masters, and ba's. It's probably barely a 1:3 ratio. -Middle management has terrible people skills. Close to my exit, we had a meeting cutting remote work benefits down (for like the 4th time) and were essentially told "quit complaining or we'll source your jobs to India." -There is a conscious effort to make sure folks in IT do not make more $$$ or have more benefits than folks who work the distribution center floors. Pay is crazy low for the field, remote benefits are down to 4 days/mo. It was voiced during an all-IT meeting by top management during a change of roles that the new plan was to run this dept like any other dept, and since distribution center workers couldn't work remote neither could IT. I get it, but also feels like a slap when most other corp. IT depts of DiB's size offer either full remote or heavy hybrid options. -Benefits. The pay alone is garbage for developers, and the profit sharing and bonus (which they milk HEAVILY during interviews and explanation of benefits) is not fully realized until year 6, nor can you take beyond 50% of your profit sharing out at the time it is distributed. Also both profit sharing and bonus are taxed at 45%. Additionally, they recently changed both to be more dependent upon company performance instead of individual performance. -Benefits again. There is no sick pay, you have to use one of your (initial) 14 days of vacation. You can't work additional remote while sick under most managers. -Benefits again. The insurance coverage for dependents uses the dated method of birthday priority to determine eligibility. -Gates to promotion. There is an unwritten rule that you can't be a senior developer unless you have worked there for 3 years or hire in as a senior. Several other developers and myself EASILY outworked multiple senior devs, even taking on team lead responsibilities as people began leaving the company, and yet were denied advancement. Do not expect to promote unless you are colossal teacher's pet and/or have worked there 3 years. -Poor architectural tech decisions. Decisions made to utilize technologies like Kafka when better solutions were available through Azure. So many hours wasted spinning up stream processors when could have just used logic apps/orchestrations or built better APIs and stuffed more data into the cloud. If you go to DiB, expect to learn how to build Kafka objects and know that will be at least half your life there. -The new building kinda sucks. I said it. It's pretty and gets a lot of sunlight but: ----The commute is absolutely terribad. There is so much traffic and construction, always. ----They charge you for parking, even though they (DiB) rent the spots. Why not subsidize? ----The food nearby is hellishly expensive or has recently gone out of business (Braggs and the smash burger place, forgot name, couldn't keep up with rent). ----The neighborhood all around is sketchy. ----The plan to remodel the entire campus is currently at a standstill due to budget reasons, so don't expect it to get better soon. ----The workspace is too open and there is zero privacy, sound bleed is pretty awful. ----Parking is a hike, especially if you get stuck on an upper floor.