Pros
If you are new to PR, this will be a good learning opportunity for you. - Most clients are legit. You'll get your own accounts early on, which can feel exciting. - You will get into most aspects of the PR process, from strategy to press releases and thought leadership articles. - You will learn time management and keeping cool under pressure. - The colleagues are genuinely cool, always ready to help with a review, a joke, or a meme. - Management has some great contacts in the media industry. - You can use the experience as a good stepping stone in your career path.
Cons
The working culture and the management style can get suffocating, fast. - Training feels mostly "on the job" and onboarding is quite quick. Everyone does everything, so you may not get to specialize or to develop your strengths. You’re like a mechanical wheel in the machine and all your cogs must be ground to size. - Since it's a fully remote position, you live and die by Slack. You ought to be online during working hours, respond promptly to management and clients, and keep an eye for messages after hours as well. - There is no sensible overtime policy. You might get a thank-you for working weekends or long nights, but the hours quickly add up and are not compensated. Work-life balance is questionable at best. On the flip side, if you need personal time for emergencies or whatever other reason, you must make it up or sacrifice a vacation day. - Your performance is controlled and evaluated based on daily lists of your accomplishments and how long each took you. Beyond "this should not have taken that long", you will not receive any feedback, so it's a one-sided affair. - The constant Slack messages and the timed task lists can create a toxic air of mistrust and micromanagement that can prevent you from truly connecting with your accounts and doing your best work. - Management's communication style over Slack can sometimes feel caustic and unnecessarily harsh. - Management appears to bring a US work mentality to a German company, and the cultural and legal discrepancies seem apparent to expats and locals alike. - The job was implicitly BYOD and the question of a work computer was met with surprise.
