With each of the pros I've described above, comes cons. While the company provides the social events and the trip to Mexico (you have to still pay $400 in taxes and your flights), you are working the longest hours and that goes for each and every department. Working hard isn't a complaint of mine; working and feeling like you're there to generate revenue and continuously being pushed to your wits end, however, is a problem because you begin to feel like a number and not an individual. I started working for Power two years ago and the culture was so unique; great co-workers, awesome management, understanding supervisors...but slowly, in my two years, there were shifts that just could not be ignored. If you work an office job at HQ, you used to work normal hours and have little holidays such as Black Friday off...the company decided to mirror sales and marketing departments to work extended hours (without more compensation--unless you're hitting bonuses) and working Black Friday. I value a healthy work/life balance and when Power incorporated all of this, I felt they were getting greedy. Work longer hours on specific federal holidays because more people are off and you're able to reach them on the phone. Work Black Friday because most people are off and you can get them on the phone. It seems Power forgot their employees, too, had families. Most people travel for Thanksgiving and I had coworkers who had to use PTO or skipped their Thanksgiving with their families so they were able to be in the office the following day. To be fair, Power did allow everyone to have off the following Monday instead, however, it's the matter of fact that they had people working for their own benefits; at least it's how I interpreted it. In addition to working days that we used to have off, Talent Acquisition's department, department was always very last minute with communicating the expectations. More often than not, you were told these things just days before. Not only was is slowly communicated, but the messaging was very much off leaving people feeling empty and unsure, asking their colleagues what was happening. Other examples included having the team come into the office during a snow blizzard--please keep in mind, anyone with a phone and a laptop/computer could do the job from home. Their excuse was that the rest of HQ was in the office, but in fact, HR was sent home early and the marketing department was closed. Again, the fact that we could do our roles from home but were told to come in made me feel like revenue was more important than our lives. In all, there was a lot of contradiction within TA, a lot of back and forth. Talent Acquisition has two supervisors; one was great with people, truly understanding, open minded and genuine. The other was great with numbers, statistics and charts...however, their roles were reversed. It would be much more productive to have the people oriented supervisor deal with the people and keep the other one behind closed doors doing what he did best. TA also assigns mentors to "teams"---they aren't paid extra for the work, instead, they're brainwashed into believing they're moving up. The rest of the recruiters do not trust the mentors making their job counter productive. The reason they don't trust them is because they run and tell every little thing to the director and and assistant director. TA is micromanaged and manipulated, people are afraid to take lunches and are anxious to leave on time, even if they came into work early. Also, there's no flexibility. If your hours are 9-6 and you come in at 8am so that you could leave at 5, you will certainly get reprimanded. If you leave at 5:59pm, you will be reprimanded. You can ask to leave early in advance if you need, but be prepared to skip a lunch or put in PTO....yes, PTO to leave few hours early. If only the supervisors would take into account how many hours people come in early or stay late. On days they roll out departmental promos, they guilt you into staying later: "If you care, you'll reach the goal. We won't tell you to stay longer, it's about accountability and if you care, you'll hit it", otherwise saying should you leave ON TIME, not early, you just don't care. You will burn out QUICK in TA. It truly used to be the best department but it's slowly turning into an agency. Dialers soon to come. Make sure you're making 80+ calls a day and have responses ready when you make 70 instead with no set interviews for that day. You may read in other reviews that Power is a cult--it is. People are sucked into the events. If you're fresh out of college, YES, this is a great place to work because you will make friends, get training, learn A LOT and move up if you do your job well...however, as you get older, you do realize your priorities changing. Suddenly, you can buy your own ticket it to Mexico, you can plan and throw your own social events. At Power, you can't make up your hours within reasonable time frames, you can't get more vacation time, you can't get sick. Like any other company, Power is quite political...get in with the right people, you'll be OK. If not, you'll have a harder time.
