Pros
Most of the staff is hardworking, kindhearted and immensely proud of what they do. Really cool network though studio clients and council. Some of the clients are working on amazing things and making our country better. Remote work is the norm, even if they keep trying to making a return to office happen. Pay for new hires is constantly on the rise. Time off is fair.
Cons
Management is not transparent with how they make decisions about anything. It is very clear that they think some initiatives are more important than others, but the favoritism is never explained. You can spend months working on big projects, and have the entire division folded without ever being part of the conversation. Employees are selectively punished for breaking haphazard HR rules. The return-to-office rules and remote work policy are constantly changing and disadvantage employees who did not have the means to move out of nyc or san francisco during the pandemic. The entire staff is burned out. The company often talks about work culture with its clients, and helps them think through how to address it and build a humane workplace. It gets demoralizing to sit in on events discussing the topic with clients, and not have serious solutions be proposed at home. We get zoom parties and balloons, but serious structural help is not discussed.