Pros
I will just be quoting people who have commented already. Obviously, I will just pick out the stuff I agree with. - Free snacks and some good people - Actually they have a really good sounding health package but in the end it is nothing but hot air - Exploitation and Modern Day Slavery (Oh, oops. The last one (or two?) are not really a pros. My bad)
Cons
Just quoting others again. :) "Management" - Toxic management - Lack of integrity amongst upper leadership - No transparency - Big egos and empty promises - No respect for employees. Only for shareholders. "Operations" - Very 'misleading' info supplied by MM in interview process. - No proper financial controls. Smoke screens and gaslighting around finances - Poor onboarding and processes combined with intense work pressure - Lots of scope creep during projects - This place loves meetings "Culture" - Extremely toxic, cut-throat environment - High burnout, high turnover - Terrible macho bro culture - Women not taken seriously and sexism has no consequences - On two separate occasions a peer of mine experienced a death in their family - Culture of not speaking up nor correcting anyone that does wrong Work/life "Balance"/Mental "Health" - You will be working 24/7 - Chaos everyday, all day - Highly stressful environment with nonsensical deadlines - Anyone working for US teams and clients can be exited at any moment - Continuous disregard for ethical working hours "Quality" of projects - You will be working on legacy projects and old technologies - Sausage Factory with little to no creative. - Production first company with too much paperwork - 70% of the work is done by Semi-Seniors, Juniors, Trainees and Interns. "Pay" - Subpar pay - No year-end bonus - The people team is paid way below market value - No overtime pay (with loads of overtime) "What are these promotions/raises you speak of?" - Media.Monks hasn't had performance reviews in 2 years - Good luck getting promoted if you're not European - This is a white Dutch centric org. If you're not a Dutch man, forget about moving up TL;DR: - Abusive work/life balance with an over abundance of toxic and racist Dutch bros - Sexist. Women are viewed as and treated like sex objects - I've never been so far from creative in my entire career - The work is all sub par, we delivered terrible projects to good clients and just ripped them off - If you are not Dutch you will never get anywhere