Pros
- Company/team bonding experiences - Some strong leaders in parts of the business - Feel like your making a difference - People genuinely want to help and care about pets - Product works and makes you believe in what you’re doing - Some great colleague working relationships - Bonuses
Cons
- Expectations to do far beyond reasonable of your job description - Toxic work culture, reliance on 'feeling like a family' - No opportunity to move up in certain departments unless a position needs filling which will essentially result in two jobs being combined. You’ll be expected to do the workload of both - Biased - Still small-business minded despite growth year on year - Often too many people trying to have an input on projects, lots of people stepping in/over colleagues and unhelpful and unnecessary feedback that goes around in circles - Frequent redundancies leave employees on edge - Honest constructive feedback given to team leaders (surveys, town halls etc) that is either ignored or taken personally - Big gaps in pay between same-level employees - Reliance on and strong bias towards freelancers and agencies despite having in-house talent - Lack of boundaries (personal and professional) - Frequent expectations to work outside of your working hours with no overtime - General feeling of a lack of respect for lower level employees - Lack of professionalism from some senior members of staff - Apathetic team leaders who aren’t willing to stand up for their teams - Slow (if any) reaction from People Team when certain behaviours are reported - Lack of communication between departments