Good for building skills, horrific for respect
Pros
-Build experience working for a global Fortune 500 -mostly subsidized healthcare -Promotion opportunities if you sacrifice work life balance, benefits (PTO) and ethics by looking the other way when verbal abuse is spewed at you/others who are deemed lesser and commit your future working life to this place (although some are in the same role for 5-10+ years despite excellence because due to cultural backgrounds they don’t fit the desired mold)
Cons
Old school mindset rampant (business professional clothing required daily, sit in a cube despite most meetings being held virtually, taking sick/paternity is seen as "undedicated" and will hurt promotion chances, open misogyny, awful comments made about female peers' appearances/political rants/questioning women on their family planning despite strong performance and dedication). There is no HR dept. They have open door policy- but your managers are likely to have 10-20yrs tenure and are usually the source of the open hostility. Good old boys club: screaming in multiple departments, passive aggressive condescension. Ileft after realizing that they like it like this- the last bastion where openly conservative, angry good old boys can thrive in Seattle. On their public financial statements, there are material weaknesses. Global trade is likely not thriving under the next 4 yrs of tariffs and/or instability. I would steer clear unless you like wearing a suit and sitting in a cubicle daily, hearing some of the most egregious remarks not tolerated in polite society. This place has stale air and an aura of defeat and decline. I stayed for the longest time thinking if I just "kept my head down" I would be valued for my contributions (thinking "maybe this is just what corporate life is like") but left once a 4x longer-tenured senior manager left for similar reasons. This is not "snowflake," this is "escape hostile work environment before your health declines further." I got the offer for the new job the day I took the annual mandatory anti-harassment training and realized 50% of the language had been used in the past few months alone. Reporting is a dead-end on their “anonymous” ethics line — reports go straight to your department’s chief executive for investigation, but the most aggressive mgmt members report directly to that exec for a decade plus… so instead of being demoralized and retaliated against, I left for a better offer at a better organization. I never even reported a single soul for anything thinking if I “proved” myself they would lighten up. Wrong — they double down and do not consider your humanity in their quest to blow off steam despite positive performance reviews. I regret staying silent and eventually realized I was violating my personal values by contributing my labor to such a place.
