Pros
Great benefits / working facilities Early Promotions Exposure to work on large brands and clients
Cons
Pay is not competitive Expected to work long hours Cross functional teams lack communication and when you do feedback to management, nothing changes, ‘it will get better’ can only be said so many times… Poor management/ lack of leadership Certain managers are bullies and can be extremely clicky with other managers, mean girl energy and riddled with jealousy for younger professionals. Leadership don’t like being called out on their poor behaviour, otherwise you’ll be labelled as the ‘difficult one’ even though a feedback/speak up culture is promoted internally. Career opportunities will be held back from you You’ll be overworked and undervalued, compensation ratings are made up every year. Told to work harder to get to the next rating with no feedback or direction, it’s a cop out to pay you more money… Office culture is childish / unprofessional and some managers enable a gossip culture with their direct reports Some managers are poor role models to the younger: new interns, grads, apprentices creating a future culture of toxic leaders