Amazing corporate structure, free diet coke cans and a beautiful lobby
Pros
Occasional free cans of diet coke and apples. Free company phone so you don't have to switch off after working hours. Office lobby features high ceilings and beautiful light/ shadow interplay. Amazing opportunity to network with CEOs and senior management at fortune 500 companies via phone harassment, with your boss behind you all the way, encouraging you to call, call and call again. Management are really engaged in the company, which translates not just to their writing gushing reviews on glassdoor but also they really take an interest in whether you're pushing yourself to be the best you can be, and if you have an off day or week they will really encourage you to improve your results Branding on presentations given at seemingly weekly hour-long town hall meetings is really consistent, with excellent use of white space and contrasting colours.
Cons
Workdays, while long (starting at 8.30am and it's expected you'll regularly work til 7 or later for no extra pay) have to end sometime. While having a company phone does mean you can continue working from home, it's just not the same as the atmosphere you get in a large open plan office with all your colleagues making calls at the same time as you. The bathroom taps are a travesty of design - they are constantly flooding the bathroom counters and the sight of wadded up toilet tissue to soak it up can sometimes put you off your daily harassment targets. The startup atmosphere in this large company can be a bit scary if you are a lazy unmotivated entitled slob who thinks a company should allow them millennial rubbish like "lunch breaks" and to leave early at 5.30pm just because you're feeling a bit sick. Working with these people can be really annoying, because besides not being able to hear the hum of 45 simultaneous phone calls in your immediate vicinity over their whingeing, it also means that those of us who are go-getters and care about our futures have to keep training new people as the others leave. It's a shame there's such a high turnover because if anyone could hack the job long enough they would see it's actually a really good opportunity and if you're the best of the best you could even land a job in another better company some day.
