Pros
As an assistant, I feel valued and respected (a quality hard to find in entry-level jobs). Upper management truly cares about employees and there's lots of room for creativity. Even assistant publicists have the opportunity to manage their own publicity campaigns (with guidance from their managers). Authors can sometimes be difficult to work with but the experience of working one-on-one with them is invaluable. Plus, there's lot of free books.
Cons
Most of the HR personnel come from non-publishing backgrounds so they don't really understand what our day-to-day tasks look like or the challenges employees may face with their projects. The new office on 195 Broadway is beautiful but the open concept work stations is determental to collaborating with coworkers or making phone calls.