Pros
- Very nice office and office location. Access to many restaurants, public transportation, and happy hour spots. - Stable stable stable. No whisper of layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic. - Good amount of PTO & Vacation Time - you get 20 total days to start and then additional week after 3 years. - Dependable annual salary increase and incentive pay. They claim it's contingent but you always get it. - You will be overworked but it will force you to learn a lot in a short period of time. - The name carries weight so when you put it on your resume people will call. - No stress at all. Everything moves very slowly so there's no "crunch time" or anything. Everyone logs off at 4:30. Overall it's not that bad. You will learn a lot and most people are pretty nice and approachable. Things move slowly so you're rarely under a very stressful deadline. It's also very stable and dependable so it's a company you can count on to retain employees and you don't have to be worried about your job security.
Cons
- You will not be paid for the job you do. You'll be paid for some arbitrary job title and some set of responsibilities written on paper. All of that will change on day 1 and they won't revisit your compensation to properly compensate you. - Your title will purposely be arbitrary, have no footing on the path to any distinct career and give you no way to know how to advance or if you're paid the industry standard. - White men are *always* promoted. All the time and so quickly. Like clockwork. - Women of color are always treated like low level employees, no matter how advanced. There is no job growth for women of color. - Chronically understaffed. Every single team is completely understaffed so not only are you underpaid for the job you're hired to do, you're also doing 3 people's jobs. - Lots of lip service about caring about employees and equity but no actual action. - If you're looking to be treated with equity you'll be told to "manage your expectations". The only people whose work really matters is the work of white men. They did an employee survey; more than half of employees pointed out this pattern of white men being promoted and considered superior to everyone else.
