Pros
- Great resume builder. - You will do everyone else's job, so you'll gain a lot of experience to help you get out of the company and find something better. - If you can make the right friends you will move up quickly. - Many opportunities to have romantic relationships. (Wanted or not) - You'll get a minimum of a 15% pay increase when you leave the company. I got a 40% pay increase, with several other offers in the same pay range.
Kontras
- If you don't drink the Kool-Aid and make the right friends you will be held back with much less pay than you deserve and be overlooked for several opportunities. - Drama, Drama, Drama. - Pay. You will absolutely make less money than you could make at almost any other company doing the same job. - Opportunity. Promotions are handed to people who make the right friends or are young and attractive women, even though 'Promotions' are against the company policy and everyone else has to go through hoops and apply and interview just for a lateral move. The greatest long term employees will be overlooked if they are competing with one of the male VP's favorite young women or their 'friend' that plays the politics game. - Too many middle managers doing nothing but job searching and online shopping all day while their employees do all the work for half the pay. They continue to create more middle management jobs just so their friends can get more money to do nothing all day too. - Sexual Harassment. Don't even bother telling HR, they will find a way to save the VP with the folder full of complaints against him and the person complaining will be in more danger than they were before. These aren't just crude comments being tolerated, but touching and threatening. I am surprised there have not been lawsuits against the company and their leadership yet. (KEY WORD: YET) - The company only has 'ups' when they make an acquisition to cover up their failing numbers or when a hurricane hits and they celebrate thousands, if not millions, of people in hardship. - You will have no work life balance. You are basically treated like a slave. You come home exhausted and angry, so it affects your home life too. NEVER ACCEPT A LAPTOP FROM THIS COMPANY OR YOU WILL BE WORKING NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS FOR NO EXTRA PAY OR RECOGNITION.