Pros
Flexible work environment, nice offices. Started at a very low salary but received reasonable pay increases every 6 months/year. Salary seemed to cap-out in my last year with no foreseeable opportunity to increase it further. My salary capped-out well below industry average and well below what I was ultimately offered elsewhere.
Cons
More time was spent gossiping, belittling and making fun of other employees than working. It was disrespectful and left me feeling desperately unfulfilled at the end of each day. Pretending to work was fun for a while but got old fast. Little in the way of guidance or expectations. So many people are hired/fired/promoted/demoted based on their familiarity to the founding family, regardless of academic background, skills or experience. There is a huge elaborate Christmas party each year meanwhile employees have to pay for a measly cup of coffee from the employee kitchen. It's rather puzzling for a company that has a monopoly on what it does, globally. Two star rating because the they paid me and the job was overall low-moderate stress/low-moderate work load most of the year with opportunity for travel.
