Pluspunten
- Historically, they have had a great team of people, so you’ll get to work with some peers who are fun, personable & usually easy to get along with. - interesting projects across a lot of different verticals (churches, public performance venues, sporting venues (stadiums & arenas), Universities, private schools, corporate) - Little out of town travel (maybe a few weeks per year for technicians) - Love & support for industry certifications (AVIXA). - Clients can be a lot of fun & have long relationships with the company and people on the team. - Good vision for who and what they want to be.
Minpunten
- Almost every person on the team is overworked & stressed - The lowest paid employees travel the most miles for work and have little to no reimbursement and are not offered company vehicles. - Schedules change frequently. - A lot of off the clock prep, communication & planning goes on if you want to do great. - Between unpaid drive to job-sites and preparation, communications & planning many employees spend 5-15 hours per work doing work related activities that aren’t paid. - Power is held in a few hands. - Almost no one at the company has worked for an AV integrator outside the company and they are not open to new ideas and methods. - Leadership isn’t investing into good software to keep the team organized and profitable. - Some of the teams work late nights, long weekends and these are rarely planned moments. You are expected to just call home and tell your family you’ll be missing dinner & bedtime tonight so you can get the work done. - Poor work/life balance. - Healthcare is very expensive for a family. Know the costs before you agree to a wage. - PTO doesn’t increase enough with loyalty and time served. - High turnover (more than half the company in the past 2 years) due to burn out, work/life balance issues and this job causing problems for the families of its employees. - What is “sold” in the interview process doesn’t always line up with reality. - Too many meetings. - Lack of paid for training & educational opportunities. These seem to come at employee’s expense. - Overly confident leadership who don’t have enough outside guidance on being successful as a larger company than they are, often guided by what used to work when they were smaller. - You will be listened to, but not heard and those conversations rarely bring action that’s implemented and supported. - No bonus structure. They had one and the team got paid out and they immediately took it away and promised to reimplement a plan and haven’t in an entire year of work. - Leadership team seems to have little influence to owners decisions. - Women employees have been recently & publicly been called “the girls,” by leadership/ownership. - Lack of diversity in the workplace.