Pros
- Free food - 100% company paid medical, dental, vision benefits - Cool people (see cons below) - Pay is decent
Cons
- Maternity leave is lacking significantly (6 weeks - is that even legal in CA?) - Located in the he|| on earth that is known as Glendale - Culture is heavily gleaned from other companies. Their tag lines/values were almost exact replicas of other companies I have worked for. I heard "Congrats on getting in here - it's more difficult to get in here than Harvard!" multiple times throughout my tenure. I was literally given an offer same day as my onsite...I don't know how true that is. In retrospect, I should have seen the red flag in getting an offer immediately. - People were seriously clique-y. I made friends with people on another team more readily than my own - they were really cool, funny, intelligent individuals. I actually Slacked/IMed a colleague who was on the phone to see if I could shadow a call when he had a chance. He never responded. Not after the call - not ever. He sat directly in front of me. I tried to approach him in person and he blew me off. I left the company without getting a response. I get that there is a lot of turnover and maybe you're trying to keep the tribal knowledge to yourself, but your work/life balance is never going to get better until you help the n00bs on your team get up to speed. I talked to a couple others from my new hire class and they experienced the same "clique-y" vibe, so I am afraid it is company-wide and not department specific. - I worked there for less than a month and 2 people quit without another job. It is that bad. - I've worked for a lot of start ups, but the level of douche-baggery is excruciatingly palpable. Hackey-sacking while on the phone with clients, zipping around the office on a skateboard, talking exorbitantly loud so everyone can hear and knows that you're working, and getting emails from the owners about rallying people to play a pickup basketball game at like 4/4:30PM (most people were hardworkers and would stay until after 6/7PM) happened constantly. How is someone supposed to work with all the noise and distractions? The phone booths were consistently taken and working remotely was only allowed once a week. - I was told that travel would be roughly 30%-50% of my job during a certain time of year throughout the hiring process. Upon arrival, I was told by multiple people in the department and outside of it that all this role does is travel. A colleague was doing a whole "beautiful mind" thing on the white boards on the walls and wrote out his travel schedule. He had travel booked almost every week from April through July. I was told 30%-50% travel from September-March. I ran for the hills. - If you are an experienced person, stay away. This place is crawling with college graduates that will work around the clock for little pay. I was told by a colleague that they were studying the product and the academy videos well into the night and answering client inquiries at 3AM. Sorry, I definitely want a life outside of work.
