Pros
I'm always grateful to have done work I like and enjoy, and to be paid for doing so. There are some talented, lovely & kind people that are hired into the organisation
Cons
Organisational direction is fuzzy - this is largely attributable to a regular churn of JV's. Awful people management styles across all levels of the organisation.The spectre of management styles could be broadly described as hostile, & a "cult of personality" approach prevails throughout the org. You can be doing excellent work, and contributing well in your role, but how you fare in the organisation is simply down to arbitrary impressions others might have, & the personal politics that sits behind them. Senior management has been hostile and belittling of individuals in their teams, and middle management has little or no influence in the face of this hostility, either upwards or downwards. The hostility seems to come out of nowhere & is baffling....until you somehow get used to it. Then you find yourself expecting to be communicated with rudely & you get a knot in your stomach every time you have exchanges with specific people. You will walk around the building twice to avoid someone. Rudeness seems to equate to power to some within the org. You can do something as instructed, only to be told later on that in some intangible way, you were intuitively supposed to know a different approach should have been taken. If you're a seasoned industry professional, & have worked places that aren't as broken as this, you will struggle with the actual logic intrinsic to this kind of thinking. It's demotivating & actually completely impractical - being absolutely obedient & having psychic forbearance of all possible issues ;) Due to the "cult of personality" management style, promotions, hires, and resourcing decisions are nuanced by personal preferences and familial relationships. Often the 'leaders' are inexperienced incumbents who someone took a shine to back in the day, & who lack any real ability to work collaboratively and lead. They get lost in all the organisational shifting, & either by choice or by chance, they end up with a clique of yes people for a team (many may be friends or family). A blind eye is turned within the organisation to all of this, & long term incumbents know to stay quiet & sit tight, or to leave. Many of them choose to play to the status quo - they don't know better, they're scared, & they spend energy justifying it all away.
