Pros
1. Some truly talented colleagues who are here for the right reasons. 2. You will absolutely get your cardio in, sprinting from shifting priorities to fire drills to full-on identity crises, daily. 3. Hone your ability to self-manage. Imagine "Survivor," but the island is on fire and the host is actively sabotaging you.
Cons
Where to begin? Imagine if your company was run like a reality show, but not the fun kind. Think more “The Apprentice” meets toddler tantrum in an echo chamber.” The CEO is what you’d get if you combined boundless ego with zero impulse control and sprinkled in a dash of gaslight-scented cologne. His leadership style is equal parts micromanagement and chaos theory. If something goes right, he singlehandedly carried it across the finish line (in his mind). If something goes wrong, he’ll personally assign the blame to the nearest warm body. Leadership meetings resemble group therapy, but with less self-awareness and more slides. The executive team’s top skill is finger-pointing, and their second is forming strategic committees to plan around the unpredictable decisions of the CEO and COO, who operate with the emotional regulation of a toddler fresh off a juice box bender. Women in leadership? Blink and you'll miss them. Unless you're ready to drink the Kool-Aid, bring your pom-poms, and become a full-time ego fluffer, your stay will be brief. If you work here and aren’t interviewing, I hope your health insurance includes mental health support, because Stockholm syndrome is real and evident. It's the only possible reason I can think of for people staying as long as they do. It's why I've stayed as long as I have, I'm just lucky enough to have seen the light. There ARE good people here. There are even good ideas. But those ideas get buried under a daily landslide of impulsive mandates, vanity projects, and energy spent trying to “manage up” to avoid a meltdown from the top.