Pros
For those looking for a place to get income and good camaraderie, G/O was a short-term solution. Perks, fun atmosphere, and good people at the lower levels.
Cons
No long-term opportunity as the company is in a state of decline and will fall of the cliff as it will loss all of its business from it former parent company (Gannett): Gannett bought G/O biggest competitor (ReachLocal) in 2016, and G/O will be reduced to a shell of what it was hyped to be...this lost customer base is significant and one should anticipate additional rounds of layoffs in 2017. To blame: initial/founding leadership teams, senior management at the mother ship for its lack of oversight, investment, and understanding, and most recently senior management. The senior leadership is neither industry exports nor thought leaders and this shows by lack of vision and understanding of the company. The inexperienced VPs are well paid for this knowledge gap and are not qualified to go elsewhere otherwise they would have gone somewhere else. The fly-in CEO has surrounded himself with familiar faces or those you provide counsel for the benefit of their own resume not of the company...ET TU BRUTE