Big company, going woke and hopefully not broke
Pros
- You have the opportunity to solve some interesting problems in the growing market of law enforcement technology - There are some good people there - Flexible and decent benefits
Cons
- Company depends largely on government spending/contracts. So the last huge spending bill by congress was good for MSI, no matter how bad for the tax payer. - Being a government contractor, you're required to get the COVID vaccine even if you're a fully remote worker. - The company has bought into the "woke" narrative of systemic racism in America, which is interesting since most of that ideology generally trends toward anti-police sentiment. So the company is in a strange place between going along with the increasing demands of culture and maintaining a pro-law enforcement attitude. - Very large efforts by the organization to begin tracking disparities by skin color, white and non-white, in order to hire more of the latter. Under the guise of "inclusivity", the way you hire is more governed by meeting certain quotes based on skin color instead of competency -- which meets the very definition of "racism" if you ask me. - They had a panel of men discuss "whiteness" - The first thing they did when acquiring our company was remove Bible verses from the building walls to be more "inclusive." However, at the same time they are going to proactively promote things like Hasya Yoga (which has a spiritual component). - They will be requiring training the help identify and eliminate "unconscious bias" in the company, which is a specific concept derived from Critical Race Theory, a highly theoretical social ideology where it teaches that people with less melanin in their skin are consciously or unconsciously "racist." - Absolutely insane adoption of things like using "inclusive" language policies, renaming things like: "man down" --> "person down", "master branch" (software) --> "main branch", "whitelist" --> "allowlist", "guys" --> "folks", Gendered Pronouns (e.g., He, Him, His / She, Her, Hers) --> They / Them / Their or Ze / Hir / Hirs - They are open, if not fully supportive, of gender transition benefits for employees, a practice which has absolutely no medical or scientific basis and simply denies what has been observed unquestioned reality for centuries. - All of the things above point to a more interesting problem: the company is spending time and resources on addressing and pushing a very much disputed social ideology, primarily propagated by academics, and somehow they think they will succeed in staying focused on their core mission: to help law enforcement. The trickledown effect of this, and things like it, leads to confusion and disorganization overall in the company, in my opinion.
