If the benefits sound too good to be true, they often are. Half day Fridays are viewed with disdain by anyone above associate level so it will be held against you if you utilize this perk that they try to use as a selling point of the job. If you care about work/life balance at all, you will spend all of your time here trying to protect it, and it will also be held against you if you do, because there is definitely the sense here that if you work in fashion that your job must be your primary focus in life.
If you are any sort of neurodivergent, you will not go far here. Introverts will go nowhere. Different personality types are not appreciated, and it will prevent you from progressing in your career. You will feel like the nerd amongst cheerleaders. You will watch the popular chosen few get promoted multiple times while you work your entry level position tirelessly for years. There is no clear path for advancement and in general you will be blamed for not fitting a mold. Day to day, you will try to convince yourself it's a great job, and then you will wonder why you can't sleep, and why your anxiety levels are so high, and you will spend all your leisure time worrying about work.
Out loud, leadership and management will say that family and life comes first and that they care about the whole person. But if a work emergency comes up, it will absolutely be expected that you put work first. And here's the catch: no matter how small the task, EVERYTHING is treated as an emergency. Direction from the top is reactionary, you will be running around trying to perform last minute changes that don't see the light of day, and lots of what you have worked on and been asked to work overtime on will be dropped unceremoniously. Worker bees will be blamed for late projects even thought the reason they are late is because upper management won't adhere to a calendar or to any of their decisions.
Be careful to not let your job just become glorified admin work that stunts your growth. Lots of people associate level and down end up just basically being shipping/receiving in-office proxies for their managers who are deemed important enough to work remotely from other states. Do not let this place convince you you aren't worthy.
