Pros
Birthday' celebration with free food on Fridays You can negotiate good wage (but no benefits at all, minimum holiday, no health insurance...) Canary wharf location As everyone knows that this is a bad company, there is a high solidarity and strong relationship between colleagues
Cons
Everything is about the mood boss. If he likes you and is in a good mood, you can almost have a normal work life (If you are a white skin girl, French or Italian you have more chance) but the most he likes you, the most he will hate you, one day without reason he will get bored about you and stop to talk to you, don't look at you anymore. If they fired you and you have a notice period, nobody is allowed to talk to you (because "there is no point" and people can be fired for that) so you are simply rejected, even they move your desk with nobody around you! If you have a strong personality, think and express yourself you can't stay a long time there. They like "slave" people who work and don't feel, just obey without thinking. The few people who are there for a long time, work in a fear, stay late every day (after 6.30), work for free every Saturday. Don't expect to have a team spirit, share idea in a team, to be trained from a senior profile as you can"t talk. If you talk, they don't care if it about the work, they think you are chatting and you can be fired. You can be fired every day, for any reason. Be late, talk, use your phone, boss mood.. You are recorded, filmed and observed by the boss. Massive turnover, every day there is new faces as everyday people resign or get fired. The main question is "who is the next?. You don't work with the serenity feeling, nobody is safe! If you are in the company for more than 6 months, people looked at you like a survivor. Managment... Boss approves everything for every little thing he has to agree, so depending on his mood, he can decide that this is not what he likes/wants and makes change everything. If he wants to change something, don't think, don't suggest, just do it! Because his mood changes every time, of course, this is very hard to keep guidelines and have a consistent brand identity.