Amazing Creative Teams, Stereoptypically Poor Corporate Leadership
Pros
• Unique position in media/gaming industry with fantastic opportunities for insider access to well known game studios and entertainment industry figures. • Driven and talented editorial/design teams and generally wonderful people on a social level. • Lots of cross-team collaboration on large-scale projects • Good mid-level managers • Flexible scheduling, respectful of personal boundaries.
Cons
• Relatively low salaries given location & workload, minimal comp increases. • Corporate leadership traditionally siphons revenue to other companies. • Not enough support for Editorial/Design teams • Minimal advancement opportunities (lots of lateral title changes) • "Unlimited PTO" surprisingly limited • Typical corporate/executive failures in media (disregard for quality/relevance of sponsorships, HR protecting the company rather than employees, executive leadership ignoring editorial/ethical boundaries, etc)
