Pros
Great people to work with. Teams work diligently and want to push the envelope and genuinely care about their work, the company, and their coworkers. Initiative and passion used to be rewarded.
Cons
Management oversight is killing morale. So many leadership changes in recent years crippled the culture and some senior staff that were brought in immediately asserted dominance rather than nurturing the talent they had. It went from a place that cared about employees to a totally results driven workplace, and in such a lean environment (which seemed like it kept getting leaner), burnout started to occur more frequently than it did in years past. Management decisions also, in many cases but not all, keeps the business a step behind it's competitors as well as the group companies. The lack of willingness to take risks is part of that. It's become a place that is obsessed with contributing to the stock price and growing it's bottom line rather than promoting innovation in it's tech, design, brand, etc. It's also a place that really favors bringing in new talent instead of promoting perfectly qualified and motivated employees to new positions. This has caused many pain points because of how lean the teams are and many times employees leave or are let go with so much knowledge of their systems or business that was never properly shared, and it is also a slap in the face to many employees that then see that they aren't getting recognition for their work and maybe aren't being valued.
