Pros
Not many that I can think of... Apart from all those stuck there seem to be nice people.
Cons
- Fake Upper Management (Directors) They provide incentives and appear to be thinking of the staffs best interests but they'll regularly lie, sack at very short notice and generally treat people like crap. Also they don't really know exactly what they're doing. Most of the time stumbling from one idea to the next shiny thing. - Sales staff are treated as expendable assets. Hired and fired at an incredible rate. - Blaming culture is very much the way management run the business. Oh you haven't hit you targets? Well that must be your fault, even when the fake awards they sell are generated by some half knowledgeable person on the subject with access to Wikipedia. - Products, magazines, and circulations are pretty much generated on a whim and are completely made up. The magazines that they create are read by probably around a double figure, the circulations they are sent to, I found out by talking to the correct people and doing a bit of digging on the web, are made up from emails bought from data houses and not created from permissions based lists. Awards are generated on the basis of 'who can we fool into buying these made up awards?'. They are created by either one of the directors or upper management, mass emailed out (numbers in the millions) to see if anyone takes the bait, the sold rediculously expensive packages to appear in the supplement that literally only themselves will read. It's incredibly immoral and most likely against standards set by Trading Standards UK. All in all, the entire basis business is fraudulent and immoral. Directors are incompetent, selfish and lie regularly to staff about progression and incentive that never materialise. Job security is awful, and people are in and out all the time because of this hostile environment and blaming culture. They lie to advertisers who are giving them money believing that these publications are read by thousands of people when in fact they are only read by the people who advertise in them! My advice would be to stay away. This business isnt one that will last forever.
