Pros
Its pretty easy to get free products.
Cons
If you're thinking of applying for a creative position here...just don't. There have been no less than 6 people at the head of the creative team In the last 4 years, from CMOs to Chief Creative officers. All pushed out within 6 months to a year. The CEO knows nothing about what creative really needs and is, but makes every single decision about almost every visual that goes out the door. (Think weekly executive meetings for him to comment on packaging designs). They want people back in office but have made no effort to create space for those people. There are like 12 desks for about 50 people at headquarters. They continue to fire the worker bees and hire more people in director and VP levels. There are basically 2 entry level or mid level designers total and a bunch of contractors. Despite some of those contractors working for over a year, they won't convert them to FT even though that's pretty clear the work is there to quantify the need. And there are no processes in place, therefore there is no onboarding and everyone is running around just trying to get stuff out the door. It causes a massive amount of extra tedious duplicate work. They've been drastically under headcount for years and instead of building up the team properly, they just re-org or hire a new head of creative. Zero promotions have been back filled in years on the creative team, but they will shout to the rooftops that we had a lot of promotions to make it look great...but there is no real career growth. You never get to take anything off your plate when you get a promotion...just to take on the new work(that you were probably already doing anyway)...and still do the old job. The creative team has "re-orged" about every six months since 2021...and it never helps anything because what they really need is headcount in junior and entry level roles. Despite several people trying for years to get some concrete brand guidelines and processes locked down in place, leadership never supports the resources to roll any of it out or document it. And there are no style guides or brand guidelines to be found...anywhere. Exec reviews can cause months of work to be thrown out with a single opinion and then give you 5 working business hours to come up with something entirely new. Honestly I think they believe the role of "creative director" is the equivalent to mid-level graphic designer. Bc they have you doing all the work and still doing production on projects to release files to factories.... despite having a full production team as well. Who by the way, largely are only allowed help with Print work...none of the massive volume of digital. When I started here I believed in the vision of the company. Being there while it went public and global was an awesome experience. But the last 1.5 years it has felt like a dumpster fire. And all complaints are spun into corporate jargon "we're problem solvers" "we're outrageously extraordinary" to make us feel like leadership is listening. They aren't. Or they tell you "It's a tough place to work and might just not be for you if you can't hack it." They care about continuously reporting double digit growth, even though it's entirely at the employees expense.
