Don't work here! Spare your mental state and career.
Pros
Some very nice coworkers, 4 pm leave on Fridays, the actual job duties are very manageable
Cons
• Everyone seems frustrated. You will hear sighs, swearing, gossiping, and angry meetings more than anything else. The entire atmosphere can be so negative at times that it exhausts you to be in it. • Does anyone appreciate getting baited and switched? There is very little communication, so you can never be sure where you stand on any matter. You will be hassled about everything from vacation time and sick days to collaborative projects. You will be told X thing is happening and Y thing will happen with no explanation. Or, you’ll be told X thing is happening, and then Y, Z, A, B, and C things will happen, someone will get angry, there will be 3 followup meetings, and then the entire thing is dropped. It’s frustrating to see your time and energy slip through your fingers. If you speak up about this lack of communication and accountability, you will be made to feel like the bad guy. • You will find out that things they told you in your interview to get you to sign the offer letter are false. There is no employee handbook, guidelines, or rules, so anything can change at any moment. It’s hard to stick up for yourself. I’m pretty sure some of the happenings are straight up illegal, but since there’s barely a paper trail, it’s very hard to assert your rights as an employee. Oh yeah, and you’ll be threatened for talking about salary or vacation even though it’s protected under the most basic of labor laws. They have a lot of ways of trying to discourage employees from having normal, healthy conversations with vague threats. • The communication and discipline style is basically like a middle school sports team. One person slips up and everyone is punished. There’s very little reward to go above and beyond because time and time again you’ll all be held to the lowest common denominator. • They use the excuse of constant growth to justify things like not being prepared for an employee’s first day (so they will have to sit around without a work station, computer, or training materials for an indefinite amount of time), not having IT or the equipment the teams need, not having a central calendar or way to schedule meetings, and more. At some point, you have to acknowledge that companies grow but that’s NOT justification for being totally disorganized throughout. • It’s not going to help your career to work somewhere full of this much pettiness, confusion, and frustration. Yes you will get a paycheck, but if there's any possible way you can hold out, KEEP SEARCHING. The only way they get a constant stream of employees is because they pay current employees to refer their friends. Pay attention to red flags during the interview and offer process. They like to say that the reviews are just a few people spamming the company, but look how many people voted the negative reviews "helpful" vs. the obviously fake positive reviews. They constantly monitor and censor the Glassdoor for PR reasons, and they will censor you when you work here. • It’s hard to put into words, but the fakeness of the atmosphere here is soul sucking. Everyone knows that it’s messed up, and talks about it on the down low, but if you have anything less than a huge fake smile 24/7 and the ability to act your way through your job, you’ll be in trouble. The gaslighting starts to mess with your head after awhile. Go somewhere that you can develop professionally and personally, not somewhere that drains your energy and your ambition.
