Pros
- Flexible roles: easy to switch teams or even take on projects that you don't have a background in - Genuine focus on learning and development - Flexible vacation policy - Flexible work/life balance: you could work hard to get promoted faster, or take it easier if that was a better pace for you. - Employees take ownership over their work. - Fun environment, lots of fun activities and everybody wants to be friends with each other - If they like you, they will promote you to a level well above your experience level. - Cafeteria is very convenient - From a non-sales employee's perspective, I think they are pretty good at trying to make sure the sales employees benefit from the perks as much as the non-sales employees do (i.e. cafeteria is open late, no designated work from home day since sales wouldn't be able to do that, makes sure to have a plan in place to help sales employees attend talks) - Lots of involvement with charities, volunteer opportunities at work - Amazing speakers have been brought in. I'm not sure I will ever forget the Cancun trips and Culture Fest Inspiration day; they were mind-blowingly awesome. - Proactive, positive coworkers and some are very talented
Cons
- Extremely disorganized (somewhat at the "company strategy" level, but more that there are very few mid-level managers, so IC's are saddled with an excess of projects without proper prioritization and a complete lack of focus, so nothing gets done) - Clear bias against women in promotions / compensation, a result of the disorganized review process and role responsibilities - The downside of flexible roles is that expertise is often lacking in areas where they've promoted an internal person up to take on a new role. - Low pay relative to market - Decision-making and promotions are very political at Red Ventures. It is a large, disorganized company with a lot of people operations work to do, so "political" may be expected, but it has a very negative effect on the quality of managers and the work experience overall. - Location is inconvenient if you are coming from Charlotte - Only recently did they start to focus on tech at the company, so there is a lot of technical debt and they are still working out a technical strategy / filling technical leadership / getting systems in place - Bit of a weird or delusional attitude pervades the place; for example, employees constantly make statements about how "RV moves so fast" but it doesn't. Most of the employees that make these statements have never worked anywhere else. It's not a problem (more a symptom of the above-listed problems), but it might make you feel like you are going crazy.