Pros
There are so many great people working here at the IC, Manager, and even Director Level. People are friendly and always open to helping others. As long as you aren't located near one of the hubs, your role will be fully remote.
Cons
I have been a manager in the post-sales organization at Employ for a few years. If you are the kind of person who wants to feel excited about the direction of your company or supported by leadership, DO NOT work at Employ. However, if you are someone who wants to show up, do what you are told to do, and then go live your life, Employ might be a really good fit for you. For me, Employ is a bad fit largely due to how the company is run. The C-Suite makes every decision without considering “how” their decisions are going to be executed upon. It seems like 100% of decisions at Employ are cut spending or to price gouge customers without providing additional value. Just in the last 2 years Employ has seen: - Every member of the C-Suite turn over except for the CEO - 5 or 6 rounds of layoffs in a year due to missing every imaginable revenue target or restructuring a department - Laid off the head of diversity equity and inclusion - Engineering being outsourced to India - Announced company goals to raise prices for all customers without providing a better product or new features that are really that impactful. - Compensation for employees going from decent to below market value with very poor benefits and employer contributions. Employ has also further cut their contribution to benefits for 2024 resulting in some employees paying as much as 10x more out of pocket for the same or worse insurance selections as in 2023. - Little to no career advancement opportunities (yes this is being said by a manager who saw no future advancement opportunities for themselves or individual contributors on their team) - Issues paying employees on time. - A restructured bonus plan for non commissioned employees where depending on your level, you can earn up to 5% or 10% of your base salary in bonuses. To detail out the result of this change, if you have a base salary of $100,000/yr, the total you would have made from the restructured bonus before taxes in 2023 would have been $510.63 or $255.311. They restructured this plan again for 2024 and the teams would have made even less with the restructured plan. DON'T let the bonus mislead you. The core issue with Employ is that it is 3 totally different companies with 3 similar yet totally different products that the C-Suite wants to call “One Employ.” The core strategy of the company isn’t to have the best product on the market. It’s to churn customers to other Employ ATS solutions so they don’t lose revenue. This is not a bad strategy per say, but the strategy will never work because there is absolutely no investment in making the 3 products even remotely compatible with each other. The sales organization is taught to tell prospects that “it’s easy to migrate Employ brands,” but in reality it’s only easy to migrate your contract to another employ brand. The actual process of migrating to another Employ ATS systems is entirely manual, can take a very long time depending on which brand you migrate to, and has a totally different data schema so anything you report on will need to be recreated or possibly compromised on. As an Employ customer, there is just as much value (if not more value) in churning to a company like Greenhouse instead of another Employ brand as long as you aren’t worried about getting a new vendor approved.
