Avantages
The people you meet in the trenches are very solid folks and knowledgeable. Great people to get a beer with. Use of a company car is nice. Work with a lot of non-profits, so the folks you meet on the job are doing some really great and interesting work.
Inconvénients
Management is a joke. The reviews are correct. The pay is subpar--$35,000-$45,000--and will only go up if you hound management constantly. Expectations are incredibly high for how little they incentivize you to meet them. Annual raises to account for inflation is a myth. They only happen if staff complain loudly enough during "town halls," and that's only if you can fit your question in inbetween their planted softball questions. There is always an excuse as to why the bonus won't be paid out. The bonuses serve to light a fire under you during the company-wide meetings, but mysteriously targets are never met despite beating the previous year's profits. Promotions are mostly in-name only. Don't expect the normal world of "Get promoted? Here's a raise!" No, no. Here it's: you get promoted, time to start bugging management for half a year to get your money while each of them say it's not up to them, it's up to so-and-so. Also, read the fine print and do the math yourself, it’s not out of their wheelhouse to offer you a net cut in pay disguised as a promotion. What about a path to earn more money? They'll tell you to get XYZ certification and they'll bump your pay. What they fail to mention is that they switch what certification they want around often enough that if you get it, there's still only a slim chance you'll actually see the money. Can you move up? Of course you can! Provided you schmooze management. Not do your job, just schmooze. Join the book club, anytime one of them is going to lunch in a group, join. Laugh at their jokes, agree with their backwards views and eventually you too can be put in charge of a department you have no idea how to deal with. Management spends most of their time on TikTok, or dozens of meetings amongst themselves to pat themselves on the back, or just outright going golfing in the middle of the day with their friends, disguising it as networking. They're so cheap they moved the company Christmas party--which is a potluck for god's sake--to a Saturday so they don't have to pay for the half-day of labor. Previous review was also correct, there was a guy floating around Entech for a couple years and no one, not a single person, knew what he did, just that he was the friend of the director of the department. If you're considering employment here, get ready to mislead clients as much as management will mislead you.
