Pros
The people who work here are incredibly talented and hard-working and kind. You're currently near a good mall and a great bagel shop but the lease is up in 2016 so who knows where it'll end up. The work can be very engaging but there is so much of it and so little guidance and support now. This is a good place to learn some stuff and then to get out. If you put your head down and don't ever research how much other companies pay and how they treat their employees, you'll still be underpaid and undervalued. The health insurance is fine. The company will continue to do fine because we're basically selling advertising for huge children's brands with its own inertia.
Cons
If minimum wage got pushed up to $15 an hour, it would bump up my salary more than the 2% given to everyone when the Publications International Children's department was sold off and turned into Phoenix International Publications. It seemed like little consideration was given to employee well being and morale after years of salary freezes and layoffs, as if the sale was enough to assuage people to hold off for another year before any potential reviews would happen. It's a "new" company that inherited the problems and management of the old company. There's a continued lack of trust and support but a dose of micromanagement and disorganization. Repeated requests for advocacy goes unheard. There's no 401k match. Upper management is not tech savvy at all so working here would stunt your growth and make you less competitive in the market (seriously, there's no project management system and there are so many projects churning at the same time and some of the software is older than a lot of the employees--this is supposedly being changed so hooray I guess). Communication hardly exists. They keep trying to hire an HR person but who knows when that will happen. Few people think you are paid unfairly other than your peers. If you bring it up with actual information, they'll dismiss it and will try to manage your expectations by telling you nothing about what's going on. During this spring, the company has had a person resign about once a week. Maybe the mass exodus will foster changes to make things better.