Pros
Fairly good benefits and pay. There is opportunity for advancement. Everyone strives to move up. They provide coffee and plates and clean the refrigerator.
Cons
You will be set up to fail. Designers have many roadblocks one of them being that the Product team tries to design and steps in the way constantly. They don't just make suggestions but they tell the designer how it will be. It's an impossible environment to be creative or get things done. You're scheduled in meetings all day and the calendar is only given that day or week before at most for few items. I would be there till past eight at night because meetings ended at four or five and then I could finally start working. There are so many procedures and steps to get anything done in such a waste of time. Every single button and rivet it has to be formally submitted and then approved on a specific sheet you have to generate and then give to the "factory" to mail it to you. You can't just request by email. You also can't contact the factory directly. Macy's has overseas offices in every country with much they do business and you have to contact their overseas contact person to rely your needs to the factory. Things get lost in translation with the middle man involved. Everything take way too many steps that consume time and add to inaccuracies. Their PLM System is the most complex and contrived I've ever used. So many extra buttons to press and extra steps to follow. People there are nice to each other but we're very rude and inconsiderate of me (being new). they would walk past my desk to go to a meeting and not tell me and then later ask me why I wasn't at the meeting. This happened on a daily basis being that there are so many meetings. Also, You can't just contact IT ... you have to submit a ticket request on one of 3 sites and wait for days for a response. Furthermore, Cockroaches run across your desk and the floor.
