Pros
- Beloved brand - Some really great people working there - Very little staying late
Cons
- Nonsensical, top-heavy structure that keeps leading to them having to make people redundant because it doesn't work - Management roles that vastly outnumber actual getting-anything-done roles - Extraordinarily strange sense of priorities when it comes to spending money - Ridiculous, time-wasting, outright offensive HR process during redundancy - Tendency for higher-ups to get overexcited by whatever the New Shiny Thing is, and pump loads of money and focus into that, neglecting other elements of the business, before abandoning it for the next one - Track record of making extremely callous decisions regarding paying people (with a two-tier system where senior roles are paid very well and more junior roles are paid as little as they can get away with), and keeping them on fixed-term contracts longer than planned so as to avoid pay reviews - Enormous disorganisation - Uncomfortably rapid turnover with all-too-frequent "Where's that person?" "Oh, they've gone" situations