- Top heavy management, with the occasional clear show of favoritism. There are a lot of family and close friends here, which can be great at times with the comradery, but detrimental when running a business or trying to lead a team. There are a handful of amazing managers, but they can be few and far between.
- Terrible maternity/paternity leave policy, one of the worst that I've seen. Required to burn through all your PTO first, and then extremely minimal support after that, leaves those who have a child in the early months with a very long and stressful remainder of the year ahead of them.
- Salaries used to be pretty good for the area, but have stagnated and greatly fallen behind the national average. Cost of living is obviously not as high as a major city, but their wages are not competitive anymore for the level of work and time expected of you.
- IT and software development are usually pretty stressful fields to begin with, but Sentry really knows how to run people 110% all of the time. It can depend on the team, but there's generally a lot of high stress and burn out, especially when trying to cram nearly impossible projects in a short timeline with not enough people to help.
- Not flexible on remote work. The current approach is hybrid (three days in, with the option of two days out), but it has been hinted that may only be temporary with a push to eventually return to the office completely. There is no longer an option to work from home full time, unfortunately.
- No student loan assistance/tuition reimbursement. No bonuses for certifications. No incentive to continue your education.
- Got rid of the pension program with no plans of bringing it back.
- Lackluster merit increases and yearly bonus, despite strong company growth. Sentry sees a lot of success, but its workers only get a sliver of a crumb of the pie. You can have glowing reviews and exceed all of your goals every year, but still only be given a meager raise (that's not even half of inflation) and not be on a track to get promoted until several more years down the road.
