Pros
You work with young people who have similar interests as you. During my time, I've had the opportunity to work with a really capable manager and a senior staff. Coworkers are talented at something and are willing to teach and share your burden. Some of my coworkers here have become my closest friends now. This place is good for fresh grads who don't mind the average or slightly-below-average salary. To summarize: possibly fun colleagues, below-average to average salary, good place as a first job or a transition job.
Cons
- Management seems to take things personally (e.g. when an employee shares an idea, they reject it, but when asked for an explanation, they don't elaborate well. It has happened a few times and questioning them seems to rub them the wrong way). - Management hires too many of their friends and fails to manage them. When fallouts happen, it gets very awkward for employees who are not part of the management's social circle. Not professional behavior. - Management does not prioritize employees' growth, does not invest in them. - Management has made unprofessional comments about my appearance/ personality. Once, during my appraisal, when I asked for their feedback on what I can do to improve my work, they told me a personality trait they didn't like about me. When asked to elaborate, they insisted that it's a rational, professional flaw that affects my work performance. - Management doesn't always give helpful or constructive feedback. They usually criticize and leave you to figure it out on your own. Undoubtedly, it's every employee's responsibility to be a self-starter or self-learner, but the comments they leave either confuse you or go in a completely different direction. - Management sets almost impossible KPIs in a bid to make you fail, i.e. set up employees they don't like for failure. - Management gossips and judges employees. (Granted, this is an observation that happened when I was there and I was personally affected.) - Management has made divisive comments on office culture issues before and then backpedaled on those comments, bordering on gaslighting habits. Not only that, they have caused a rift among employees and misunderstandings that should've been properly addressed. - Management does not value employees' work greatly; there was one incident when a coworker's work was completely lifted/ plagiarised by a rival media brand — with the company's logo cropped out and no credit was given nor asked prior. When said coworker spoke to the management about it, they basically dismissed coworker's feelings and thought of it as not a problem. If you're looking for a place that validates your hard work and respects you as a content creator, please move on from here. - Management has little regard for journalistic ethics. It's there, but very little. It is common to hear them tell their content creators/ producers to do it as a "favor" for clients. Basically, you're just a content machine to them. - Management has poor project management. Despite informing them of our timelines and giving them feedback on how we can better manage our workload, client work and "favor" work are adhoc-like. - Not much of a career growth here. Work at a bigger company if you want to climb the ladder.
