Pros
Good benefits, free beer, decent pay. Some of the people are great, and can become life long friends. Nice office, parties, happy hour on Friday’s where you could bring a beer to your desk while you work.
Cons
You constantly have a 12 hour work load which you are supposed to get done in an 8 hour day. The office is extremely open with cubicles everywhere, meaning there are a TON of distractions constantly and you have no privacy to get your work done. Sometimes it can be fun because you’re always surrounded by people to talk to, but if you’re around people you don’t like then that can really make or break having a good day vs. a bad one. There is no such thing as “an 8 hour work day.” Try 9,10, sometimes 12 hour days. Work/life balance does not exist. Every year on the employee survey it gets a terrible rating. They always want you to go above and beyond what’s expected, but there is literally no way to do that unless you’re putting in 50-60 hours a week. In fact, if you were to leave when you’re ALLOWED TO LEAVE (at the end of your shift), you will become the talk of the office and will probably be spoken to by management for leaving ON TIME. They will find something about your work to complain about and use that as an excuse to getting on to you about going home. Not to mention there is no OT pay during the week. When it comes to the office politics, AB takes it to a whole new level. There are plenty of people who “play the part” and just get promoted without having successful results in their work. Yet when it comes time to showing why you should be promoted, all AB management wants to see is numbers. If you want to get promoted, all you have to do is really suck up to senior management and have “ok” numbers and you’re good to go.
