Pros
* Above average pay * great offices with free drinks etc * lots of training * good perks * great tech supplies * a (mostly) non patronizing environment. Management screaming at employees is not the norm here * the experience can change vastly dependent on what manager you find yourself under though * oppurtunities to move to other offices
Cons
* Hard work and not allot of work/life balance - endless emails and very long hours needed to get your job done. I've Never worked so hard in my life. * Diluted focus - There are hard targets which are already challenging but they throw so many things other interim targets into the works (no doubt for someone above to justify their position) such as extra reports, meetings and projects. you are often running around like a headless chicken trying to do everything that you have no time to do your actual job and achieve nothing. They need to give the workers very simple objectives and then leave them be to do the actual work. thats how the needle moves * lots of lots of Politics - as mentioned in other reviews there are too many people trying to impress vs doing their actual job and they get all the recognition/promotions whilst the hard workers pick up their slack and go unrecognized. * fair bit of favoritism - with the same people getting all the recognition all the time. This can become very demotivating after a while. It's less about how hard you work and more about how much people may like you * lots of bad middle managers - People are promoted who might be good performers but are terrible people managers. I've seen some atrocious ones who are toxic micro managers or do no work at all (spend all their time on 'famils'/holidays or doing personal stuff all day at work) and take credit for their staff's work. They create the highest turn over. After the lengthy Interview and training cycle it's so sad to see so many great staff go because of these bad managers. * far too many meetings, too much talk with little action and too many upper managers trying to justify their existence but creating useless extra work/projects for the workers below. Let's stop talking about it and actually implement it. This does seem to be getting better though * communication frustrations that I'm sure come with any large company - so many departments/Alias's and no one wants to be accountable.
