Pros
Creative environment, young employees, design centered, aesthetic On paper, this workplace looks amazing. The values seem strong and on a walkthrough of the office you’ll see open workspaces, employees chatting, kitchen and coffee maker, and it is all very aesthetic. It looks like the workplace you want to be.
Cons
Gossip, nepotism, cliques, slander, double standards, low pay, lack of support, not employee focused, cutting corners, weak strategy The good features end at the appearances. The senior leadership team is out of touch and greatly ridiculed across departments behind the scenes. Their main motivation is sales numbers. This is only a bad thing because the product quality control, employee culture, logistics, and work life balance really suffer. You are expected to be “on” 24/7. Emails will come through at all hours. You will frequently work 10-12 hour days with no breaks. You’ll see values like team as family and their open door policy which might make you think they’re open minded. This is not true. New employees are criticized for having ideas or talking too much. Senior team members will openly tell you they can’t be fired because they are personally close with others at the company. Present concerns at your own risk! Even after witnessing harassment and bullying and racism you can’t say anything or you will risk your job. They are aware of how to say things and manipulate people and how to really trap you in being dependent on the company. It is very cult like. If you don’t fit in with the toxicity and form alliances you won’t last long. They will openly tell you who they think won’t last long at the company. They say it with pride as if only the special few survive but the truth is that the turnover rate is unprecedented because normal people don’t tolerate that level of manipulation and cult like demand they try to put on employees. This is information they openly share from day one. They will tell you they have had culture issues, gossip issues, high turnover, etc. These things still exist because the people who perpetuate them most are allowed to remain in high leadership positions. The HR department is performative. An employee on my team sent HR a complaint and HR forwarded it to the manager of the department in an email. Wow!! The backlash was astounding. They are unwilling to penalize and handle the toxic members of leadership and they enable the most unprofessional and corrupt culture I have ever seen.