Pros
- Slow-paced life compared to the real working world - Very accepting place for incompetence and laziness - Good food choices nearby - Long lunch breaks because the boss goes for longer lunches than you - World tour opportunities
Cons
- Unprofessional display of leadership: outright favouritism and public shaming. Once targeted, you're either ignored or shamed at meetings. - Toxic, manipulative micromanager who spends bulk of her time on gossips and churning office politics. Any personal info will be used as lunch time entertainment with her favourites. - Not much to learn and grow since you're micromanaged to do operational tasks like chess pieces, no opportunity to do real marketing. Opinions and ideas are not welcomed as they might be seen as opposition. - Team does not have good fit for their roles, especially the boss displayed lack of knowledge and skillset to manage marcom / branding, leading to questionable decisions. Appears that favoured members take on leadership roles in the team, regardless of their past experience or competence. - Extremely unproductive: Hour long meetings were set but the bulk of the time was used to 'bond' with members via gossips. The number of handover meetings you have seems to be proportional to how much anger there is towards your resignation, or it could also mean how unclear the boss is of your current tasks at hand. Many have left the department and HR is aware of this but not sure if any actions taken to address it.