Pros
Great for trauma bonding and gathering ideas for dystopian corpo-hell YA fiction.
Cons
You have seen all the reviews about the layoffs but the smooth part of your brain still thinks "But they make money, surely the business can't be that poorly-run?" And you're right, it's not poorly run, it's run exactly the way they want it to - cheap, fast, and piggish. This industry is a free-for-all and this tactless venture machine is profiting simply because everyone is terrified of dying unremarkably, so massive amounts of cash are being spent on building Babel all over again. Accountability falls exclusively on the lowest denominator here - annotators being hired at pithy wages face the roughest path forward because every moment is tracked but never formally appreciated. Upper management doesn't even have to answer emails on time, if at all. HR pretty much plugged their ears and yelled until you went away. But don't worry, the higher-ups will trash talk the laid-off individuals on LinkedIn for voicing their displeasure at how it was all handled, and then promptly like their own posts (no, really, the fart-sniffing is DEEP with these tech-dependent hustlebabies, they hide from real answers at work and share their bogus thought leadership boldly online where they can pretend they do anything besides eat whatever dirt the CEO asks them to). If you want to see what happens when you stare too long at your own bellybutton while dreaming about one day being Elon Musk or Batman, work here.
