Bad mojo - Anonymous employee Monks Employee Review

1.0
14 Apr 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Individual contributors are smart, hard working, kind, and generous. Lots of really good people trying to do good work. Benefits are good. Salary is competitive.

Cons

Too big for its britches. Impossible to enact change. No respect for employees. Only for shareholders. Employees to not get to options or bonuses so do not have an ownership stake. Lots of promises given. Very few enacted. We keep being told to be patient, but are not shown patience in equal measure. Utter lack of understanding about how to build an inclusive culture where people feel like part of something bigger than themselves. Classic corporate attitude of growth and revenue over people. Share holders are the only thing that matters. HR's disingenuousness is palpable. Employees are leaving in growing numbers. Long-term prospects are lots of work for selfish individual career climbers, but for people who want to build a collective sense of accomplishment this place is a lost cause.

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Cons

* Low pay and lack of career progression. Last year I had my first raise in years but it was a VERY small increase that hasn't improved my quality of life unfortunately. This year they pushed the merit increase by half a year. There isn't a doubt among all of colleagues that this is an intentional move to get more folks to quit / save money. * High employee turnover. * Multiple waves of layoffs and departures since 2024. Lack of communication and planning around layoffs leads to us having to figure out solutions on the fly and it honestly does not seem like that leadership cares about how these layoffs are affecting the CURRENT business. * Rotating door of Execs who have no idea what's going on in the ground. We're just treated like numbers on a spreadsheet.

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