Pros
Preface: I worked at Techweek briefly and left promising myself I wouldn't look back once I escaped. But after hearing that the company continues to hire and deceive employees, I felt compelled to leave a note here. The bulk of the reviews on Techweek's page are honest accounts of employee experiences, not exaggerations. Lesson learned: Trust Glassdoor reviews! I didn't and I wish I had. -- You get to say you work at a startup. You can wear literally anything to work. No one cares if you show up after 10am. Sometimes no one cares if you show up at all. You learn how to execute tasks at record speed, without oversight, in functions in which you have no previous experience or training. You develop a deep empathy for the characters on Silicon Valley. You discover moral principles you never realized you had because no one had so thoroughly trampled them before. You’re always able to one-up the office horror stories of your friends who work at saner, less self-destructive companies
Kontras
You’re sold a bill of good about ownership and innovation when you’re hired, only to discover that there’s only one pair of slightly-too-small pants in the office, worn by an imperious chairman with a pocket square fetish. You’re jerked around by managers who set unachievable goals and craft self-congratulatory excuses for not reaching them. Every meeting is a speech about how the company has “learned so much” and is now finally poised for unbridled success. Employees who were praised as rockstars on Monday have disappeared mysteriously by Friday. Eventually transparency, predictability, meritocracy and any semblance of professional functionality all seem like beautiful, hazy memories. You wake up one morning to the realization that going to work every day feels less like your obligation as a productive member of society and more like the next act of an absurdist play about that frog in the pot of slowly boiling water who is either too stupid or too lazy to jump out