Pros
- Young and vibrant office culture.
Kontras
1. Low pay for the work you do ($5-6 per article). Which you are required to do in-depth research, source quotes, source photos (and resize them accordingly), incorporate SEO into the article, come up with a title that needs to be engaging but can only be written a certain way, create a tweet, write an excerpt that needs to be different to the headline (not repeating any of the words already used in the title), add tags, create shortened URL, and add categories. Oh, and you need to write 150-300 words for the article. The management team thinks this should take you 15-20 minutes. In the end, it usually took me an hour.
2. Piers Fawkes keeps changing the style guide of how things need to be written. However, instead of telling you that the style guide has changed, he will tell you that you've written something wrong. For example, a few of us got told off for using the word "smartphone" because one night he woke up and decided that "smartphone" is a stupid word, and requested us to edit the articles.
3. Piers and some of the senior editors have little respect for the writers. The way they address writing issues is to always talk down on the writers, although some of the employees probably have had more substantial writing experience than Piers and the Editor in Chief put together. That is why most great writers leave, and you're left with a bunch of interns.
