Pros
1. Good insurance coverage and benefits, especially for families. 2. Opportunity to move around different departments after a certain time but varies case to case and depends on how impactful be for the business. 3. Exposure to different part of business and learn from both success and failure stories. 4. You have the luxury to work from home and if there is an office close to your location, you can have your own flexible hybrid schedule.
Cons
1. The company has gone private which means less transparency than before. 2. Teams and workflow processes are unstructured with teams acting as separate entities using their own softwares, logos, etc.--to the detriment of cross-functional congruity. 3. Focus is more reactive than proactive, trading problem-solving and foresight for band-aid decisions, which exacerbates a vicious cycle of constant refocus on previous problems causing a “pile up” with new ones. 4. You are not set up for success. Managers incapable of providing tools and resources will chide and scold you for errors stronger management would’ve mitigated. There is also a “wild, wild, west” mentality where juniors are “on their own” until they mess up (and then, of course, it’s all their fault for doing so) and toxic competition among team members (employees trying to prove that they are “valuable” to the business by keeping work to themselves, belittling coworkers on Zoom calls, questioning others abilities behind their back, etc.). 5. Each senior/direct manager or leadership team has their own agenda, leaving you no choice but to follow suit. You’ll become “backdoor” managers of people because existing managers lack the competence to do so and the work will fall to you. On top of a ridiculous amount of managing up already required. 6. Some managers propagate a “yes man/woman” culture even when confronted with lack of resources to complete requests. This exacerbates an already daunting corporate culture towards elevating certain employees’ feelings over productivity, sensible project management, and/or actual employee support and engagement. 7. Teams can be extremely lean: employees hired for one job end up doing 2.
