Pluspunten
Prior to being acquired by by Prometric, Paragon was passable, a 3 star at best. Former pros included strong benefits, and a very healthy profit sharing bonus. This helped offset the overall lower-than-average salaries. Inclusive hiring I suppose, many of the major executives are female or PoC.
Minpunten
Since acquiring Paragon, Prometric has shown that they plan to gut every single thing that made the job worth it. The profit sharing plan has been disrespectfully used to pay completely unrelated Executive salaries, and is now a shell of its former self. You can move heaven and earth, be told you've been a great employee, and still be told your bonus is being taken away due to completely unrelated expenses and inefficiencies from the US-based bureaucratic sloth that is Prometric Testing. The internal staff at Paragon have been leaving in droves, and the company is a shell of its former self. Any culture or community has been removed as uneconomical. We've been told that "cost cutting is our culture" from Prometric, and they've shown it at every turn. Benefits have been cut, and Cost of Living Adjustments have been strategically made to provide the least possible relief against inflation (2.8% - and provided months late - retroactive to the previous week, like a bad joke!). Those of us who hung around despite all of this plus the added workload (workload which increased due in part to Prometric refusing to hire new employees and in even large part to terrible new rushed-to-market projects with mismanaged expectations and insane timelines) have seen our wages stay stagnant with no opportunities for promotion or any kind of growth. Prometric has led many of our staff on with vague promises that when it's in the budget they will re-evaluate, but in the past two years nothing has been done, except pilfering our profit sharing to reward their own upper management (who did not a thing to earn that money, were not even involved with Paragon as a company at all). Prometric itself seems to be an extraordinarily top-heavy company, churning through low-level and mid-level staff while showering bonuses, promotions, and raises upon their executives. Successful projects are credited to "the leadership team", and they all pat each other's backs and hum and haw about how tough the economy is for them right now, so they couldn't possibly increase salaries. Record profits, and long-time staff are being paid less and less year over year.