Pros
Colleagues in the Product/Digital department are genuinely caring and hardworking. Flexible working and autonomy relatively good. If you're a senior professional, might be a good gravy train as they'll pay you obscene amounts and you can feel a sense of ego inflation as those under you do the majority of the work for a pittance.
Cons
I won't go on here as there is too much to say so I'll be succinct. I'll also preface by saying I left on excellent terms and have nothing but respect for my former colleagues, my comments below are aimed at clueless or uncaring senior management. Senior management are in my estimation an aloof and uncaring bunch that have utterly failed to reach their growth targets. A large part of this is due to where they have placed their focus (senior hires and shareholders) and not enough on the large contingent of junior and mid-level employees whom they dangled enticing rewards and growth potential and have completely failed to deliver. Their approach has not worked and in that way I am glad because it did not deserve to. There were also many rumours about the attitude senior managers had with their direct reports and wider team and that type of aggressive and confrontational behaviour is appalling. Have engagement, reward and talent expertise but use none of it internally. Or if they do it's inconsistent. Previous engagement survey was only used with a portion of the UK business, I assume because they were worried about the impact some departments would have on the scores - This is something we advise heavily against when talking to clients but we did it anyway. From what I have heard, nothing has been done off the back of results, mainly because they're so awful they don't know where to start. Pay conversations parrot the same lines. Wait min 2, likely 3 years for promotion, get single figure increase and be told to be grateful for this. Despite going above and beyond in your role, best thing to do is leave and come back in a few years on massively inflated wages. Incredibly demotivating as an exercise. Redundancy round went through recently. Of course, all hush hush but some well respected individuals have left. I'd imagine little was done to salvage their jobs and I have heard rumours part of the redundancies were due to certain individuals being outspoken. Absolutely no sense of direction for the business, particularly Product/Digital. Technology is years behind allowing competitors in all spaces to rise up and take market share. Very unlikely that the tech will catch up and so rely on the excellent relationships that have been built by my former colleagues, however I am sure they will not be rewarded for keeping the ship afloat. Things will only get worse here as motivation levels internally are at an all time low. If you are thinking of joining you are coming into a business with either no direction or a bad direction. Many years ago this was an organisation that you felt a love and joy for. It had its faults but it felt like something worth saving and building. Then Korn Ferry arrived with its brand of American corporatism and has utterly destroyed the heart and soul. There isn't even the warm embrace of a nice paycheck to comfort you as work yourself into a period of stress leave for a bunch of faceless shareholders.