Pros
Nice office with a roof terrace in a great central location. Free food - snacks, drinks, fruit, coffee, lunch on Tuesdays/Thursdays and Friday booze. Healthcare and dental plans are very comprehensive, and flexible hours/working from home is allowed. You also get an annual gym/fitness allowance and personal travel budget which is very generous.
Cons
Once you get past the shiny benefits there’s very little substance underneath - the phrase “fur coat and no knickers” springs to mind. Everybody seems bored, disengaged, demotivated. The office is half empty since people have left and not been replaced. Projects are started and then abandoned further down the line when the strategy from higher up the management chain changes suddenly. They recently introduced company values - one of which is “we believe in transparency” - however a whole department made redundant with no internal announcement is anything but transparent - the rest of the company heard about it through Chinese Whispers. Also - “Speed wins” - what a farce! When every new hire or promotion decision has to pass the CEO’s desk for approval, it takes ages to get anywhere - and if you actually do manage to get promoted you can consider yourself extremely lucky.
