Pros
The culture. You become very close with your colleagues. You get to work on exciting, global automotive brands. The events they create can be fun if you're allowed to go. Lots of in-office holiday celebrations. Halloween, St. Paddy's Day, Kentucky Derby, etc. Dog-friendly, unless it's bigger than a jack russel terrier. Food catered in once or twice a week.
Kontras
Insane expectations, zero concern for employee growth, complete disrespect for personal boundaries, no communication, zero accountability, embarrassing absence of leadership, questionable management ethics and decisions. Management doesn't give a flying fudge about you. They care about control. You'll be expected to give up your weekends without any warning... but they'll never tell you that. They play passive-aggressive political games to keep you spinning and cause confusion, just so they can point the finger. They withhold important project information, wait until moments before the deadline say anything, and then become hostile when the work is late or below a standard they also never communicated. Most of the Producers and AMs are reactive, incompetent email-pushers who have two modes: Demand Frantically, or Demand Angrily. They'll make outlandish promises to the client, then drop the project on the team without any background information, context or resources needed to actually do what's asked. God forbid you ask for clarification! You'll get radio silence (at best) or a deafening ear-full (at worst). If don't set boundaries, they will walk all over you. They will light up your personal phone all weekend long, without your consent. They'll blow smoke up your butt, send you into battle without a weapon or armor, and then berate you for getting injured. For inexplicable reasons, management commonly assigns grossly under-qualified people to lead projects they have no experience handling. This causes intense stress, pits people against each other, and adds to the the toxic atmosphere. Progress is treated as a plague. Any idea for a new process, or new-fangled tools like software to make things more efficient? Forget it. Don't waste your time trying. Two types of employees here: Full-time, and remote contractors. Each gets a different set of rules. The remote contractors exert dangerous influence over management, so much so that you wonder if they have some sort of dirt on the CEO. They use their distance from the office to hide behind their keyboards and stir up chaos without consequence. Then they have the balls to rudely call or text you at 11PM with some unreasonable demand. This is a small company. Fewer than 40. In the past year and a half, 11 people have departed. Think about that.