Pros
Free lunch from an in-house kitchen staff is an amazing perk, full stop. I've heard the food isn't nearly as good since I left (a lot of the kitchen staff was laid off), but it was great while I was there. 3-4 unique plates of food each week. In the two years I worked there, I only saw a handful of dishes repeat, and yet I always found something I enjoyed!
The gym facility is extensive and free to access for employees. People would play basketball in the morning and there were enough nets for three indoor pickleball games to go concurrently. There are treadmills, a wide variety of weight lifting equipment, a sauna, and clean locker rooms. If you work at Malouf, there's really no reason to have a gym membership.
I'm 99% sure this perk no longer exists, but we had free haircuts and a salon while I was there. 10/10, the barber was phenomenal, very personable, skilled, and I hope this perk returns when the company stabilizes itself. It was one of those small "bonus" perks of working there, but many of these perks have been removed or rolled back given the dubious future of the company.
The company culture was fun and friendly. While I was there, we did half-day Fridays, which is nice given work was from 8 to 5. I'd frequently plan appointments or flights around this half-day, and it was nice not to use my PTO for it.
My PTO was 15 days plus 5 days of sick leave per year. Very generous by most standards, especially since I got to take advantage of this amount immediately upon hire (your mileage may vary, my manager was perhaps not as strict).
Malouf offered very competitive insurance benefits, medical, dental, and 401k match.
Cons
I got a decently sized raise at my first EOY review but none for my second. Given the company's continuing struggles for the past couple years, I wouldn't expect much in the way of raises until the company finds its footing.
Layoffs were done impersonally by email. The tone of the email from upper management was apologetic but otherwise tone deaf.
The severance package I received was unexceptional, bordering on laughable. Two weeks of pay, all benefits cut in less than a month.
Even now, over a year since I was removed from the company in the second big wave of layoffs, I've seen almost all of my creative team colleagues either abandon ship or get eliminated in additional waves of layoffs, leaving what can only be a veritable skeleton crew surrounded by rows and rows of empty desks.
I'd be very hesitant to accept a full-time creative job at this company given their track record. But given that they're outsourcing the bulk of their creative work now, it's likely they've completely given up on hiring these types of jobs anyway.
