Pros
If working from home is a pro, there ya go
Cons
My mental health, work-life balance, and professional confidence suffered greatly during my employment here. This company is mainly concerned with two things: image and bottom line. The bottom line (the profit) is the most important, and if you get in the way of it, you won't last very long. Even if it is on behalf of many individual contributors/teams in hopes of improving internal operations to promote long-term scalability. • Unrealistic expectations with workloads and communication. — Workload: The team members are constantly inundated with more projects than they can reasonably handle with timelines they can’t realistically achieve, and a lot of time is wasted with daily re-prioritization to meet the unreasonable demand. — Communication: Non Existent. This management team is all about gas lighting you, its a sickness. The lack of information between departments (the “sink or swim” culture that causes constant cross-functional misalignment), leadership and individual contributors will often come up with different answers for “the why”, leading to frequent communication breakdowns. ICs are responsible for making important decisions with 50% of the information they need to do so, but are 100% responsible when the breakdowns occur. • Lack of accountability for leadership There is a general unwillingness for accountability measures or anything more than minor changes to workflows to hold both members of leadership and departmental leads accountable for unrealistic timelines/expectations or missed deadlines/deliverables. There is no safe or comfortable avenue for discussing challenges with other departmental leads or leadership TO leadership, and no clear picture of WHO exactly is supposed to be holding those leaders accountable when they aren’t following processes, delivering their project pieces, or communicating effectively. • Disorganization In short: is rampant. Teams are constantly shuffled and restructured, people given new titles, individual contributors switched from one lead or department to another because the creative teams are not growing at the same rate as the demand. These “restructures” attempt to redistribute the unreasonable volume of work without hiring more people, resulting in a LOT of stress and uncertainty. But the solution of "more people" is rarely considered. • Cliquey There are certain people who have the CEO’s ear, and have far too much sway over decisions about things they are not actively involved in on a daily basis. The mid tier group of management here is so overworked and stressed its evident this is a sinking ship. This extends to who stays and who goes. Leadership does not apply equal weight between your peers’/direct reports’ experiences working with you and the clique’s opinion. I’d go as far as to say they don’t consider the former at all. Other reviews have mentioned the startling way terminations occur. I agree. I've seen so many excellent resources quit, some have even quit with no notice and I do not blame them with this toxic environment. Little to no information is given to the rest of the team when it happens, and it creates a lot of fear and uncertainty for individual contributors. Great people with years of experience and phenomenal work ethic were let go, seemingly on a whim or a bad day. • HR I cannot say I fully understood what the HR department did while I was there. Sometimes they were involved in HR-related conversations, sometimes they weren’t. It made for a relatively uncomfortable and uncertain experience, as I mentioned above, in regards to a lack of safe avenues to discuss workplace issues.