Pros
PTO and benefits are ok (if you're an individual - exorbitantly high for couples or families so dont let that be your deciding factor if you want insurance for your spouse/kid) When you work in office, free snacks Some nice colleagues Remote work possible, but if you get a manager that wants you in office - forget this one if you brown nose enough to becoming a partner's favorite suckup, you become invincible. They will not fire you no matter how lazy you are, how much of a bully you are to others or how much you take off during actual work hours. They call this 'flexibility' where most others would call it 'taking advantage'. I knew a guy who practically stole from the firm and left early every single day and because he was the partners lap dog, they excused everything he did. At Miller Kaplan, they reward toxic behavior!
Cons
Where to begin - let's start at the top. The managing partner and all the inane committees that management started want you to believe that they care about you. They do not. All of their DEI initiatives are just buzzword-laden virtue signaling nonsense. The people making all the decisions up top are still old white guys that have to be strong armed into caving in to giving less represented people better pay and titles. Don't get me started on being allowed to use preferred pronouns - that was a huge issue. I cant believe this place is right in LA (with an office right in San Francisco) and these types of archaic attitudes are still alive and well. I worked in HR. I saw the emails where people were mad that they had to sit through uncomfortable harassment and DEI trainings - because they claimed that they discriminated against white males. And yes, the people complaining the most were Managers and Partners. But dont worry, gents - Its just all talk and sharepoint articles - nothing actually changes! The company went 80 years without letting a male or non-binary person do reception duties - because it was preferred to see women up front because reception is wOmEn'S wOrK. That tells you all you need to know about who they really are; dinosaurs stuck in the 80s. Im not here to just talk about the conservative attitudes - the 'progressive' HR management team also wants you to think they are on your side. They are not. They are out of touch, overpaid elitists who waste a lot of time talking about the expensive trips they're planning (or casually reminiscing about), the pizza ovens they are having installed in their backyards...and other luxuries that most of the people they work for cant relate to; because most of us live with family because rent/houses/basic necessities are too much in LA. How much more out of touch were they? I was forced to be in office a certain number of days a week and had to sit through a meeting in the almost empty office. While the HR Manager was taking the same meeting from her 2nd house in Joshua Tree. She thought it would be a 'nice treat' for us to see her fabulous yard... while we're stuck in windowless offices. Another example? the COO thought it would be a great idea to send a book he co-wrote to one of our offices out of state and when he visited, made everyone sit in a meeting and regale him with their favorite parts. The egos at the top are absolutely massive and delusional. I could go on for days. They bullied the poor mail guy into not filing a workman's comp issue when he hurt his back while ON DUTY. He is an ESL person who has some trouble understanding English so of course they manipulated him into not sounding any alarms. They knew of a girl actively being bullied by her manager (the manager was name calling and several times acted on aggression verging on physical violence) and they did nothing. The pandemic happened and thought they solved the problem by allowing the aggressor to work from home. And she wasnt the only one - there was a manager in our outer offices that was cited as THE REASON by several employees for them quitting. Yet they coddled that manager because he was....wait for it....a Partner's favorite. If this is too TL;DR for you, here's a rundown: -all managers, partners and supervisors have their favorites. If you are not someone's favorite, they will find a way to make work so unpleasant you decide to quit, or they fire you. Terminations are high here, unless you suck up enough. -If you do get fired, they fight every single unemployment claim. Because, what else would they do? actually run the business? -complaints are handled painfully ineffectively, as I have outlined. I have friends I have become close with and we've trauma bonded over our time here. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT VICTIMS -The office is painfully old looking and there's leaks and rodent problems throughout. Also since its North Hollywood, dont stay too late after dark because the neighborhood becomes rather scary.