Pros
- Colleagues are so nice and very knowledgeable about their line of work - Free food in the office or via gift cards - Team lunches or dinners/ bonding activities when able - Gain lots of experience in different areas, if you're willing to - Opportunity for growth (but unclear of what that will look like from a role trajectory standpoint unless you're a consultant)
Kontras
- There is no company culture, despite many attempts for it - No real role-specific professional development opportunities or processes for employees are offered or regularly encouraged. They hire more seasoned professionals (often contract or freelance) which means more junior staff don't get that guidance or development that you would get in say an agency or in-house. - There's no HR, so there is no buffer between you and Co-Founders. This can be an issue when the uncomfortable or questionable behavior is coming directly from them or you're discussing promotions, raises, workload, etc. - Co-Founders clearly don't like each other and they can be temperamental and sometimes extremely rude (to employees and vendors) - Lots of arbitrary rules and processes for a company that's been around for 19 years. Makes it confusing for what to do, who to go to, what the standard procedure is for certain things, etc. - Pay is ok, depending on your department. Consultants get paid more than Business Development and Marketing teams, which makes sense but BD and marketing salaries are under the average for the industry, especially when factoring in the location (NYC) - You will absolutely be taking on more responsibility than is outlined in your contract for your role. As with all companies, they will try to get you to do as much as you can for not nearly enough pay - Employee turnover rate is high. People are always leaving, oftentimes within months of being hired (6 people in the first year of me working there). If they actually hired an experienced recruiter instead of doing it themselves (easiest interview ever), maybe the turnover rate would decrease. - Small WeWork office space and can get messy because no one cleans up after themselves - Wants you to work in the office (hybrid or full-time) as opposed to fully remote, despite a small office space - Appears to be a larger small-sized company (claims to be around 100 people), but actually has less and hires a lot of freelancer and/or contract employees - NYC office only has like 5 people that will actually come into the office regularly, despite having at least 10 more employees for that region. - If you're a junior hire or an intern and go into the office, you will absolutely end up doing office admin and mailing because they don't want to hire someone dedicated for that.