Pros
- Employees are ncouraged to run or go workout daily during work hours or lunch - Free onsite gym - Easy comfortable dress code: You can wear Brooks gear and running shoes all day/every day - Very understanding about maternity, paternity, or illness leaves - Can be a fun place to work, they try to make it so - Nice running trails right outside the door - Lots of free gear/shoe samples distributed on fairly regular (but unexpected) basis--an email goes out and stampede begins - They'll sponsor employees fees for certain (number of) races each year - LOTS of encouragement for people who run in events - Great operations team, especially in distribution center - Once they get to know you, most people are generally nice--except the running cliques
Cons
- Boys club environment--especially in management, sales, and footwear - Management lets sales call the shots - For a small company, seriously poor inter-departmental communication - Strong competition and certain amount of secrecy between silos (Sales, Marketing, Footwear, Apparel) makes collaboration difficulty - A work culture based on competitive long-distance running seems to breed a competitive, non-collaborative environment - Company fractured into exclusive cliques, often based on age, sex, and running times - Sales team = frat boy atmosphere that's condoned by upper mgmt because "Boys will be boys" - Lots of promotions to men, not women, even when the woman is better qualified/better candidate - Success here is often decided on personality, not competence - If you don't have a cheery "FUN" demeanor or personality, you won't make it - If you're not a runner, you will feel like an outsider the whole time you're there