Pros
Hourly rates are relatively competitive, even if men make $10/hour more than women for the same job. My teammates were some of the most brilliant, resilient, creative and collaborative partners I could have asked for; they shine in spite of awful management. I truly can’t think of a positive without a negative caveat. We’ll get to that below.
Cons
PenFed is the most toxic, traumatizing place I have worked in my career. “Leadership” is a small group of like-minded men who arbitrarily move the goalposts of success to make themselves look good, pinch pennies or both. Your good work will be overshadowed by some VPs conviction that a word in a presentation is wrong, or it doesn’t “look like” what competitors are doing; that can be enough to have you personally degraded in a group setting. It’s beyond inappropriate. IF YOU ARE HIRED AS A CONTRACTOR WITH ANY DANGLING HOPE OF CONVERTING TO FULL TIME THEY ARE LYING TO YOU. They will push you to work long hours and lie about it in the interest of being a “team player.” It’s exploitative and illegal. You won’t be treated like a human being.
