Pros
- Get to write about the things you love
- Free/early access to things you care about, such as movies, games, comics, and TV shows.
- Lots of opportunity for interviewing talent like directors, actors, etc.
Kontras
- Pay is pretty disgraceful
- They repeatedly force staff to use their crappy forum to drive engagement from other users. It’s 2026, no one is using a brand new forum. All the threads were just staff talking through each other to hit a quota of forum engagement.
- Directives are constantly changing, often seemingly based on nothing. Leadership seems to be lost in terms of what to do. When soemthing works, they run it into the ground.
- Leadership favors their friends from their previous work places, even when those friends aren’t performing very well.
- You can go above and beyond and will still get abruptly laid off via a cold, impersonal email before being locked out of all of your company accounts.
- Fired/demoted all of the editors, meaning tons of work was published with typos, inaccurate info, and more. Standards have slipped dramatically.
- Managers/leadership weren’t on the same page, they’d tell you different things.