LA Office Is A Joke - Anonymous employee Condé Nast Employee Review

1.0
26 Oct 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The building itself is nice with a welcoming, spacious lobby. Cliff bars in the kitchen. Health insurance for those lucky enough to get it.

Cons

Terrible infrastructure - One overwhelmed and ineffective IT employee to deal with a company where nothing works. It's been six months and they still can't get the phones to work. On-boarding issues galore - it took them 6 weeks to pay one of my colleagues. None of the internal protocols ever simply work - something always goes wrong and you have to jump through a million hoops. No HR presence in the LA office. This magnifies all the infrastructure issues. Incompetent management who don't stand up for the people who work under them. Terrible salaries for non-management and they'll fight you over any sort of OT. No culture - Even within departments people rarely interact. No happy hour drinks after work. Nobody seems to know each other nor care. It feels like a place people come to punch in and punch out and leave it at that. The vibe is often apathetic and screams "Such is life."

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