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
Kontras
- 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