The people all care about each other...
Opportunity to interview with my co-workers.
Opportunity to learn and contribute to the overall corporate objectives.
Executive team does not engage with workforce. Company structure is very top down.
Cooperation across the various departments has continually improved over the past 15 years. However there are issues with the lack of cooperation across the company business units which has resulted in inefficiencies and costs.
Pay raises have always been 1-3% annually. Company recently engaged a professional services organization to evaluate job descriptions which equated to re-leveling of pay bands. Result did not result in any increases but did end up taking several salaried positions and turning them into hourly.