Pros
There are a lot of social events and volunteer opportunities that they encourage, when you're able to attend. The corporate office cafeteria offers a lot of great food options, as well as snacks and drinks, and they try out new things once in awhile. And being able to drop off your mail in the mail room is convenient. If you have a good manager, which I have had a few, they are very understanding with flexibility in terms of pregnancy appointments, family/doctor needs or being sick; like any manager, as long as workload is covered or can get done or wait, time off requests were always approved.
Cons
The womens' buying division expects a certain type of attitude, look, and even interests and non-individuality in order for you to truly feel like you're a part of the team, you have to drink the drink if you know what I mean. It's fast paced, the work load is insane with how much they turn out for orders, yet they expect you to also be social, volunteer, and take part in office events, of which there are many. Not saying all these fun things are bad, but it's hard to do all that while managers are also pressuring you to resolve issues and get deadlines in, and yet also pressure you to be a part of the team. And all while having to troubleshoot programs that are so old or just launched, which means you're having to figure out the tech issues and give feedback on said new programs. They promote young grads into roles way too quickly, like if they've completed their one year role as an analyst, they just move into the assistant buying role the next year (or less), as if we're just meeting another deadline. It doesn't seem like they focus on experience when promoting (You're experience is the one year or so and they deem that enough), since they need to make room for the next huge batch of interns to hire. And they seems to shift around team members into different depts (to shake things up, I guess) even if the person is already doing well or established within their dept, so you're having to relearn the job again and rebuild relationships with new-to-you vendors since all depts run business differently, I saw this happen about every 6 months. Diversity is a problem at this company, at least in the buying dept, everyone is very young and blond and wants to look like they work in a NY fashion office. POC, even in interns, weren't very present. All this being said, everyone is friendly, but don't expect to truly be accepted unless you walk the walk.