Pros
Nothing that outweighed the cons.
Cons
Just found this place to have a horrid culture. Some people will thrive here, and good luck to them. But if you're not thriving, it's nearly unbearable. Heed the warnings of cliques - they're rampant here, and if you're not in the in-group, you're made to feel it. Very little diversity, and no genuine commitment to it, either. Management will make a lot of noise about work/life balance, as many companies do, but in practice they make it impossible to maintain. Hours are already long - 9-6 - but grads working their first permanent roles were regularly doing 8AM-8PMs, some for months on end. Colleagues would talk about times they spent crying every day of the week, and management effectively telling them to suck it up - this is PR. Regularly at team meetings, management would announce that we were going through a 'crunchy' time, and act like acknowledging the workload did anything to alleviate it. Functionally, we were understaffed and paying for it with our mental health. You can't protect your own time either - in my experience and others, declining work results in someone going to your manager to check if you're telling the truth. Generally just lots of condescension to junior members of the team, who are treated like glorified interns, and made to prove themselves over and over and over. Micro-management was extremely intense here - there are countless spreadsheets to maintain devoted to keeping everyone and their dog up to date on what you're doing. Any error, no matter how small, will see you pulled up, to the point it's almost paralysing. Feedback can also stray into the very personal territory. Felt completely crushed by this place, and haven't looked back since I left.
