Pros
As a small private company, Swift really does have the potential to foster a charming start-up type environment with infinite opportunities for advancement. The interview process tricked me into believing it would be a welcoming and flexible workplace where my opinions and experience would have great influence. But as long as the company is run by an entitled entrepreneur and his manipulative HR sidekick it will be none of those things. Pay is suspiciously high even for the Bay Area. Benefits are atrocious.
Cons
In over a decade of working in corporate real estate I have never had such an unpleasant, unprofessional and unwelcoming experience in the workplace as I did with Swift. The company is structured such that if you didn't work with one of the 3 founders "back in the day," you will be treated as an outsider and never fit into the "Swift" way. In my time with Swift I was held to very strict hours, verbally berated by management, ignored when I shared ideas, told there was nothing we could do about under-performing staff, and ultimately never granted the full workload promised by my job description. Swift requires a very specific personality type in order to fit HR's standards, and mine was clearly too far outside of the box. As long as the company treats outsiders as disposable entities, they will continue to have high turnover as employees flock elsewhere where they are actually valued.