Do NOT believe the flashy workplace awards. Do NOT work here.
Pros
- I worked with some of the brightest and most creative folks I've ever met (especially on the Creative team). - Work-life balance is manageable for the first few years... until you're promoted to the point where you no longer qualify for overtime pay (aka Account Executive). - A solid place for an internship: you will get a lot of experience and develop a wide-ranging skill set because they genuinely need the help.
Cons
- Leadership loves to pat themselves on the back for being a women-owned and a female majority company, but the DEI stops there. All of their internal DEI committees (which were regularly neglected by leadership and left to flounder with minimal to no funding for employee training) have been gutted since I left. - No respect for employee mental wellbeing. My final straw was having to beg one of my managers to not give me another account when I was already struggling with overwhelm, she "talked to leadership" about it, and she came back to me a few weeks later telling me I would have to suck it up. I had a vicious panic attack in the office bathroom before deciding to quit the next day. - Many past and present employees confided in me to share they also felt anxious, burnt out, stressed, scared, overworked, and undersupported. If you're brave enough to speak to a manger about your concerns, you either get brushed off with a sympathetic smile (if you're lucky) or get placed on a PIP because, actually, you need to be doing more, not less. - As mentioned above, your work-life balance goes out the window as soon as you are exempt from overtime pay. I was told by a manager that regularly surpassing 43 hours a week--which would put you in overtime otherwise--is acceptable and outright expected of you. There would be weeks I would log multiple 9-10+ hour days, ESPECIALLY before/after I dare to take PTO. No one ever checked on me. None of my managers asked if I was drowning (I was). This was considered the norm. I could go on and on. In fact, I have--I sent the owners of Vault a letter detailing the concerns I have the day I left. Neither of them ever reached out to me. I've heard from friends still there that things are getting worse, not better, since I left.
