Pros
The ability to work remotely. Good starting pay if you don’t have a degree or student loans to pay off. The people you work with will be nice on average, but management is full of nepotism and favoritism. Diverse, engaging, and fast-paced. The work itself was great, but I couldn’t stand the ‘wolf of wall street’ higher ups.
Cons
Moving towards a micromanaging system, nitpicking on things that are inconsequential, but ignoring glaring errors and issues that are brought to the attention of management. This job does not incentivize going above and beyond, because the manager above you (who gets paid way more than you) will wait until something is a catastrophe to act. If, and when, they do act on you raising a red flag, they will use you as a scapegoat and throw you under the bus. Pay raises are infrequent, and don’t align with how the market is trending. The benefits are pretty minimal, okay insurance for medical, but you’ll be spending about half your check on it if you have a spouse or family. This job isn’t sustainable, in my opinion. It feels like they work you to the bone and then throw you aside when you inevitably burn out. PTO accrual is a joke (3 hours a pay period, six hours a month), and they only cover a handful of holidays. I feel like I should have invested my time with their affiliates rather than them as a company. This one is a bit more personal, but if you’re LGBT, they don’t have any true understanding of how that ‘works’ and you’ll feel pressured to be in the closet. They were very vocal for their support for racial demographics (the company is very diverse, racially), but were silent about gay and trans issues/recognition. The company was vocal about being feminist and mourned recent pro-life laws, but did not have the same respect for anti-trans legislation being passed around the same period. I often felt that approaching HR was a slippery slope to getting fired. That’s the same for if you have any mental illness (even if invisible), they treat routine, necessary appointments as a major inconvenience for the company, even if you’ve gone through HR and make up your hours. I didn’t realize until I was ‘let go’ that I was ruining my life trying to please this company and climb the corporate ladder. Just the other day, I noticed that I was internally pushing myself to SIT DOWN faster to get on my computer to search for jobs. Everything became a race, because you’re constantly pushed towards that 100% productivity goal. Now I feel like an idiot, because it was a waste of my time, and I was thrown away with no warning.