Pros
Big flashy name for you resume, and it only cost you your soul and your free time! You can learn a lot if you’re willing and can find someone to teach you. You learn your personal limits for exhaustion and stress tolerance pretty quickly, it’s a great place if you want to find out exactly how thick your skin is.
Cons
Despicable treatment of junior staff - many are overeducated, bright, and talented, yet have always been overworked, underpaid, under appreciated, and straight up abused. Exceedingly high turnover - many younger staffers were let go in April on extremely short notice, disrespectful move by management. Sotheby’s didn’t care to invest in their rising talent, made stupid calls on who to keep. Clients behave like petulant children, junior staff is expected to say thank you sir may I have another & tolerate generally inappropriate behaviour (ex. A client looked up a junior staffers personal Instagram and liked just her bikini pictures in between email exchanges with her - disgusting harassment, but hey anything for the sale right?!)