Pros
Coworkers are lovely and great people. Some of the managers are also great people but aren't given any real power to progress employee's life situations. Yes some management will help you and teach you a lot. But they also have their hands tied because of upper management. I want to not only progress professionally, I want to progress financially in my career. Staying at the same spot financially for 3+ years is not progress.
Cons
The most important thing is that they do not give merit increases or cost of living increases. This is a company based in SF and NY, this is NOT COMPETITIVE. You only get a raise if you get a promotion. Again, this is not competitive. When you get a promotion your salary increases to generally the lower band of the new role you are in. Do you want to have that lower band of pay the entire time you're in that role? I was told that there were annual merit increases do not happen, only promotions will give you a pay increase. Obviously they do not advertise this, but it is very important to most workers. This is the first salaried position I've ever had that didn't give annual merit/cost of living increases. Also unclear goals on what's needed for a promotion, once I had met the criteria I was told that perhaps their was an option was for a title promotion without a pay increase (seriously, wtf?). It's not my fault the economy is crappy and clients are scaling back their spends. Pay your staff for promotions, BE BETTER. No work life balance, people put up slack icons indicating that they are having dinner and will be back online later. Other people will put up notices saying they are commuting home and will be back on after. Why is everyone working after dinner or after they get home from work. There's no balance and while it's not explicitly said you need to work those hours, there's so much peer pressure to not be the only one not available at all hours. They used to have the last Friday of the month was sort of a time to take a half day. Literally, go out on a hike, go outside, catch up on stuff in your life that you needed. It was a way to recharge and help manage life. They later changed it to "Focus Fridays" which you were supposed to not have meetings, use slack or generally bother other team members. This might work with some roles, but you can't tell clients that no "we can't take meetings on any fridays" or a client asks for something urgent and it's friday but wait, none of the designers are very available because of "Focus Fridays" it's so frequent that you can't implement it in some roles because clients don't care that you can't have a meeting every Friday. When it was once a month you could schedule clients around your focus day, but you can't tell a client that 20% of standard work days just aren't available. They should bring back the old once a month last friday since "focus fridays" only work for certain roles. CEO's don't care about COVID, insisting everyone return to the office even if you have high risk people in your household. Individual managers do respect their employees when you talk with them one on one, but the CEO's don't care. The first 3 attempts to bring everyone back into the office resulted in emails the next few days about someone that came in with COVID. The CEO's care more about attendance in their newly refurbished office than employee safety and personal comfort level.