Pros
1. Very casual dress 2. They have a lot of snacks in the office and will order almost any snack that you request through their spreadsheet 3. They order food for the office from good restaurants the last week of the month
Cons
1. The hiring process is very time consuming and painstaking. Applicants must go through multiple phone interviews. If you get through the phone interviews, you are given difficult “homework” assignments that must be completed within 48 hours. If your homework is considered acceptable, they will call you in for a face to face interview that can last anywhere from 2.5-3 hours. You will be interviewed one on one by each department head. Once you leave, the department heads have a meeting and vote on whether or not they are going to hire you. The decision must be unanimous. 2. Hourly employees work reasonable hours because they do not want to pay too much overtime. However; as a salaried employee, you will be expected to work anywhere from 12-16+ hour days. Even if your work is complete, you will be expected to stay until every other employee is gone for the day. 3. The manager I worked under seemed to be a decent manager…at first. I started with two other new employees who were in the same position that I was hired for. He met with each of us weekly one on one to tell us what horrible jobs we were doing. Before the one on one meetings, the new hires were always on edge because they knew they were going to be bashed. Often, after the meetings ended you would find the new hire in the bathroom in tears trying to compose themselves. I will tell you that these hires were not unprofessional. Most of them were lawyers or others who had years of professional experience. 4. The manager I worked for had brought one of his friends on as his employee and showed that employee and another employee who he spent recreational time with much favoritism. As a new employee, it was impossible to fit in with the established office cliques. 5. My manager had very unpredictable behavior. One minute he was kind and the next minute he was verbally abusive to employees in front of the entire staff. 6. The training material was unorganized and incomplete. The training process was scattered to say the least. My manager had told me that he was so busy that he had not had a chance to finish the training material. 7. My manager stated that he wanted us to ask him questions constantly. However, when you do ask a question he becomes easily annoyed. 8. My manager often gave conflicting instructions on how to complete a task. Even when you could provide emails conflicting emails from him, you were still blamed for doing it wrong. He took no ownership for his mistakes. 9. Management treats you like a child that needs to be scolded rather than an educated professional. If you take a position there, expect to be micro-managed with everything! Including simple tasks like sending emails. 10. You will not be given breaks. The most you can do is a quick run to the bathroom. All non-department heads eat lunch at their desks…if they even get a chance to eat. 11. Management is aloof with every employee except their favorites. Do not expect to be promoted. Their favorites will be promoted long before you will. 12. They compare themselves to being a company like “Google”. This could not be more untrue other than the amount of food in the office that you will not have a chance to eat. It would be more accurate to compare them to a sweat shop.
