Pros
-Good employee discount -You can find yourself a mentor (on your own) if you get to know enough people, while a majority of people are very competitive some do want to offer help and mentorship for new members -Nice office space with walking trails and a Starbucks -Flexible hybrid schedule -Opportunity to meet celebrity guests or on air hosts -Casual dress code in office
Cons
-Low pay for the workload, higher ups making much more and rolling down the work to assistants and merch admins working 10-12 hour days -!!! Assistant buyers are not eligible for quarterly bonuses, only those above them -No mental health assistance for workers when struggling, hard to even get a mental health day off let alone help -Expect to work much longer than 9-5 whether you’re on air or working on their website, meetings all day on top of 100s even at times 1000s of emails a day from all the teams and vendors -Pressure on the buying teams to also work as merch analysts, little creativity in the buying process -Development is on you at this company, you’re constantly being told your development is in your hands and need to schedule meetings to be trained by managers and schedule your own training classes online (some of the training is only done in large virtual classes making it hard to really learn the skills) -The website assortment and the on air assortment used to be separated but they laid off 400+ people who worked on the online assortment and it’s all been rolled into the hands of the on air teams and the few off air members saved from lay offs -Software programs have an alarming amount of issues, constant glitches and work that gets done but just doesn’t go through or process and has to be done again, systems used for on air and off air items are also different making it hard to work cohesively -Little to no IT support when working from home, IT outsourced in other countries to people who don’t know the programs we need help with -VERY hard to work collaboratively with other teams, lots of meetings but then somehow lots of strong miscommunication and disagreement when actually executing the work -Encouraged often to look at the business as “our business” but then paid very low, seeing the company bring in millions daily and then constantly being told we’re broke -This company is a dying company, the transitional period from lay offs has only made things worse and the company is scrambling with upper management changing their goals weekly to try and fix their mistake -Upper management can be very harsh and judgmental, preaches acting with empathy but rarely see that at this company