Pros
There are many brilliant, motivated writers and editors here. (But they are completely overworked, undervalued, underpaid, and straight-up lied to.)
Cons
Where to begin?? This company is like all the bad parts of high school, except now it's your career (and your rent, or lack thereof) on the line. There is zero emphasis placed on quality of work; it's all about how you look, whether you're conventionally attractive, and whether you are an Instagram influencer. The work hours are unbelievable and there's no such thing as a lunch break (Yes, it's illegal not to give employees a lunch break, and R29 would of course say that all employees are "allowed" lunch. But what single employee is going to break for lunch when the 300 people around them are working straight through?) And speaking of illegal, R29 will straight-up promise employees something — a certain pay rate or job, a bonus, or time off — and sign a contract for it, and then "change their mind" whenever they feel like it. But because they hire almost exclusively 22-year-olds, employees have no idea that these abuses are not just par for the course out here in the real world post-college. (Also, 22-year-olds are very unlikely to be able to afford to hire a lawyer and sue.)