Pros
-Great place for a recent graduate to land a full time job in the start up sphere. -"Fun" startup vibe. Free lunches and company sponsored happy hours. -Great benefits. Affordable insurance and competitive PTO policy. -Holistically one of the best and most dynamic groups of I've ever worked with. Diverse professional backgrounds made interacting with new hires interesting. -Overall some really interesting products being sold. -Strong work/life balance if you work in the right departments. -Sales Executives come with a purpose, a plan and the experience to execute.
Cons
1.Complete and utter lack of professionalism from founders and upper management which trickles down and creates a standard for operating that is often void of common respect. 2. Whether you like it or not there's a MAJOR perception that recruiting/promotion preferences still go towards the asian ethnicities. No matter how many meetings you have it'll only look like damage control because the day to day behaviors still remain. While I do not entirely agree that there is in fact any malpractice here, when the perception exists it festers into something ugly that's a disservice to everyone that works there. 3. HR gets a gold star for effort but simply isn't hitting the mark. It's painfully obvious that no one in the executive structure has implemented a personnel strategy that achieves results to scale AND optimization. - Job titles being used to promote individuals have no industry relevance making your growth worthless to other companies when you're ready to move on. - Performance management standards and training therein for newly promoted individuals is either non existent or deplorable. Your experience working in one department can be vastly different than working in another. -Really lacking maturity in the production coordinator realm. Just because someone is in the 30-40's (or god forbid their 50's) doesn't mean they're off-culture. We're hiring for the culture we have instead of the culture we need. -We hired and promoted HR professionals that basically got thrown in as Generalists despite not having the education or experience that the organization requires much like the industry standard "HR Business Partner". These people will one day make a great ones (if they wanted) but again, without anticipating the growth requirements for the business we asked more of people than we should have and quality ultimately suffers. 4. If you work in any form of production or creative for the company it is entirely thankless and your experience as an employee with be nothing like the rest of the company. Sales related departments will always win over in the daily experience and the tenured individuals that recognized that and tried to tip the scales are long gone and the morale of ones still there are wearing frighteningly thin. 5. Couples working cross functionally is highly problematic. It's really great to have that "love" in the air but no one's personal life should have any bearing in my day to day operations.