- Very easy to become disconnected if you are full-time remote. This can lead to interpersonal conflicts, which are made more difficult since you aren’t there in person to handle them.
- Heavy focus on global user conference can be something of a distraction, and if you aren’t directly involved, can make you feel excluded.
- A couple years ago, DT shifted from giving regular performance reviews to giving reviews ad hoc. This was marketed to employees as a means by which managers would be empowered to give raises more frequently, based on employee merit. In practice, it has meant fewer performance reviews and fewer opportunities for raises, which are often smaller than what they could/should have been.
- Largely due to the above, pay is NOT competitive, and does not track with professional improvement (or even inflation), especially over time.
- Company is undergoing a digital transformation, but is still hesitant to fully commit to the best solutions, or let non-core applications experiment with new technologies and methodologies and figure out how to do it best.
- Memories of past layoffs make asking for raises or coverage for standard business expenses (i.e. traveling to the office) very anxious experiences.
- Efforts to unify the messaging have given some teams considerably more leverage in the organization than others.
- Marketing team likes to completely rebrand every 18 months, which damages brand consistency, and has a ripple effect throughout the organization with arbitrary requirements and timelines that are foisted upon other teams without consulting them, often with a sense of urgency that distracts from other projects.
- Not really a con so much as something to consider: the company has a tendency to try and monetize things, which can make some applications stray from their original goal and business purpose.
