Pros
- Office team that genuinely cares about you and supports your learning and growth - Good cohesion among employees - If you do good work, you will be recognized and praised by senior leadership - Small company size leads to more hands-on projects and experience - Instant impact ability and cross collaboration - Working directly under/with industry directors, the CEO, and the CMO, who are all professionally sound
Cons
- Long hours are unavoidable on any given day and generally bleed into the weekend (depending on position), leading to a harsh work/life balance - Pay is low for the amount of work you do - Horrible work culture established by CEO - Work culture perpetuated by upper-level staff who try to shield employees from CEO, but ultimately know nothing can be done - CEO constantly and publicly berates employees and the CMO, leading to high employee turnover and burnout - PTO or non-paid time off requests are often declined due to the amount of work - Workload and deadlines are sometimes too unrealistic, and quality of work is often too disappointing for the CEO
