Pros
If you are lucky you get to work in a department with great co-workers.
Cons
Extremely political environment. They rather hire contractors and vendors instead of employees. When they do hire employees the pay is usually lower than what competitors offer. Extremely stressful environment where senior leaders in Philly will continuously make local management feel as if they will lose their jobs at any minute. Just drive by any of the DTC sites and you will see the smoking sections are busier than Chick-fill-a at lunchtime. Bullying is common and if you refuse to take it and you don’t become a yes man/woman you won’t last long. Large amounts of money is spent on childish contests and rah rah events instead of paying employees what they deserve. They will say they are all for personal development but there is zero time for it. I worked there for over 5 years and watched true leaders either quit, change, retire early, or get termed. There are some wonderful HR reps yet others should be turned into HR themselves and unfortunately some of those individuals are at director level or above sadly. I did truly meet some wonderful people during my time there but honestly once I left I felt as if I finally got out of prison. I’m free and it feels wonderful :) I’m all for using them to possibly build your resume if you need to but if you want to keep your sanity don’t stay too long.