Excellent Culture - Avis employé Executive Assistant MAGNET

You get to work on really interesting problems to support the manufacturing base of Northeast Ohio.

Vulnerable to downturns like most other consulting companies.

Most of my co-workers cared about the mission, which was/is to grow manufacturing in Northeast Ohio. There's plenty of knowledge and experience to go around, and you can learn a lot just from listening to your colleagues.

MAGNET has the challenges of a typical small nonprofit organization - a disorganized sink-or-swim environment with office politics and some unfortunate tone deafness. Tenured employees are favored and newer employees are tested or otherwise treated badly; if you are not tenured, chances are you will carry the workload of two or more positions without the pay to match. During my time there, there was a distinct lack of trust between support employees (non-consultants) and the management team in that those employees were micromanaged on when and how they performed their jobs. There is also a general lack of boundaries when it came to work/life balance. While you have the option to work remotely, there is an "on-call" attitude where you are expected to be available to work even after you go home. I would frequently receive calls and emails from upper management well after 6pm with the expectation that I would respond and/or complete a task. At the end of the day, almost everyone had good intentions and good hearts - things were just executed poorly on a day-to-day basis. If you're the type to want a job where you can just perform your duties as you see fit and go home at the end of the day, this might not be the place for you.