Pros
Not much to say here, I guess the benefits were nice because I didn't have to pay for anything!
Cons
- Non existent work life balance/lack of understanding boundaries: you're expected to work all hours of the day, and even on the weekend. You'll get pinged outside of work hours, and the work is treated like life or death, and if you don't work/ fail to meet those requirements you'll be yelled at in front of the team, and experience a lot of passive-aggressiveness - Understaffed & Overworked: You'll continuously get projects despite the team being spread incredibly thin, but all upper management cares about is if it gets done. Your life doesn't matter, only the work you're assigned to matters. - No structure: There was no review system in place, no real trainings, just word of mouth. If you were taught something incorrectly, then you have to unlearn it real quick unless you'd want to get in trouble. Even people who were considered "managers" never really received any sort of managerial training, and it showed as how to they treated their direct reports. - Toxic work culture: I can't speak to this enough, but every mistake that was made by someone on the team was exposed and said in front of everyone. Not to mention other people in the company will clearly disrespect you in email, and talk down to you. Lot's of verbal harassment, and a lot of upper management was extremely unprofessional. Must have stemmed from a lack of respect. Lots of gaslighting as well.