There is no internal culture. Stark is more focused on acquiring clients than developing a supportive work culture with quality leadership.
Work life balance is tolerable at best. You received a very moderate amount of PTO, and your ability to work from home is entirely dependent on which leader you get. Some guarantee time WFH, some say they are against it because "it affects collaboration".
Teams are highly tribal in nature, and it is clearly a power struggle between HR, Operations, and Finance.
Stark Tech is a collection of smaller acquisitions, which has led to leaders who should not be executives serving in executive roles. Leadership will largely ignore you unless you are a favorite of theirs, and if you are not with them, you're against them.
There is very high turnover.
There is no emphasis on accountability of leaders, nor are there any legitimate values that are woven into the culture. The values are there to make it seem as if they are devoted to something other than buying out any competition and gathering clients.
You will have very little opportunity to move up any ladder as there are both no positions, and they are making up ones as they go. You will not have any developmental opportunities as the Training team is unable to adequately provide any outside of technical training based on what will affect the executive's bottom line directly.
Incredibly inefficient collaboration culture. Meetings are long, unnecessary, have no takeaways or agendas, and are highly disorganized. Communication overall is poor.
Also, there is zero emphasis on DEI. During a town hall, a question was asked about when a DEI initiative would be started after having been told that a member of HR would be working on it. There were no developments, but an executive spoke up and said "just a reminder, we are an outcomes based workplace for promotion opportunities." As if it isn't illegal to do otherwise. If you go here to feel represented and celebrated, whether you're LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, a minority, you won't be celebrated here.
I couldn't recommend Stark any less than I am now. It was one of the most stressful, uncomfortable working experiences of my life. I wouldn't send anyone from my industry here ever, even in the interim.
