Pros
Pays on time, solidarity between non-management staff.
Cons
Unpaid overtime is not just expected, it is the norm, sometimes going up to 60-70 hour weeks (often starting from the Sunday before). Expect verbal and racial abuse, which borders on Islamophobia, antisemitism, as well as the rampant usage of the n word. They have a high turnover rate since GIFT's inception, with the average tenure being around 8 months. Employees have fallen sick from overwork, and management just berates them, calling them "losers." You are promoted based on visibility and not performance, and the office politics can get stifling. The CEO is a charlatan, whose "scholarly output" is mostly ghostwritten by staff or his friends. Abuse cascades all the way down, and the CEO's senility leads to mixed signals on what to do and what not to do, with lower level employees taking the brunt of the abuse for mistakes made by upper management. Upper management doesn't protect you from abuse, and there is no HR. You are expected to clock in before contractual hours, and stay long after contractual hours, I in fact got reprimanded for leaving within 5 mins of EOD even though the work was finished. There is also a lot of unethical business practices, such as creating conflicts of interest by pushing employees to sell their subpar offerings to friends and family. They speak of promoting "independent thinking" but if your ideas do not adhere to the CEO's worldview (which changes as he is senile), you will be shunned and berated. All in all, do not join unless you are desperate for money, as there are no concrete transferable skills to be gained from, or brand value attached to, this company. Moreover the company is chronically understaffed due to most of the money going to upper management's pockets, and the high turnover rate means you are effectively doing 3 people's work on top of your own.