Pros
-Your peers are really great. They will keep you going and pull you off the floor when you're crying in your cubicle. -There's a lot of kool-aid to be drunk, should you so choose. The executive leadership team is always looking to add another disposable yes-man to their roster so long as you're willing to support them instead of the workers. -The brands are fun...however--
Cons
- enjoy what you can while it lasts. Bending the knee to the C-Suite's out of touch decisions will be the final nail in this Transformer sized coffin. - the CEO is the most tone deaf megalomaniac I've seen in a while. He has no love for the legacy of the brands his employees work on. He has no understanding of the work that goes on. He uses the company as his personal toy box-- forcing crucial areas of the business to work on his personal projects he deems "priority" while laying off the amount of staff needed to do the bare minimum of keeping things afloat. - Leadership decisions have become aggressively anti-employee. When faced with the potential to be an industry leader with employee care, they chose an aggressive RTO initiative with active tracking systems to encite fear, removing half day Fridays as a perk at the same time. Their attitude around it is one of disdain for the very people who keep their pockets lined -- "Don't question us. You should be happy you get anything at all. See you in Boston." - the mood around the building is tense. Fear rules everything. What few employees remain are constantly reminded they can be discarded at any time for "not keeping up" with the insane demands. 50-60 hour work weeks, hallway breakdowns and crying in cubicles are the norm for many of us. The fear of retaliation is real. Complainers are removed. People speak in hushed tones looking over their shoulders. Employees are afraid to speak up without guaranteed anonymity because they will be singled out. - they do not backfill when employees burn out and quit, are laid off or take medical leave for stress related reasons. The work will be distributed among the few who remain until it's all pushed "closer to the source". - employees are actively training their replacements overseas. A new initiative framed as a "company wide opportunity", will wind up outsourcing the majority of the creative jobs to cheaper labor in China. What jobs are not done overseas, are now being forced to rely on AI for design and development. Gone are the days of concept sketches and human ingenuity. They require their employees to use AI for as much as possible. - morale is at an all time low. All the employees seem to know and understand. Those outside of upper management fill their in office days with complaining, mutual knowing glances in the hallways and too many overlapping meetings to keep track of.
