Incompetent, awful senior leadership. The worst.
Pros
-young company, great if you want to party with co-workers and make friends, bad if you’re older -be ready to be given way more responsibility than you might be ready for with little or no oversight; think resume builder - if you can keep your job. Your boss won’t know how to do your job, most likely -basically, if you can tough it out for a year or two you can launch to a better job, but you’ll hate most of it -nice office, generous benefits and vacation, okay pay
Cons
-they have no idea what they are doing, it’s so pathetic -they’ll probably fire you within the first three months, after relocating, for practically no reason at all. Seen it literally a hundred times. -worst kind of top-down structure. Get ready to be told (lied to) that you have power, and then have every aspect of your job second-guessed by everyone above you up to the EVP level and then told to start over at the end of your project timeline, most likely to try and capture completely unrealistic and delusional goals -leadership is entirely European and doesn’t understand that having 50 retail stores in the US makes you as competitive as an outdated mom and pop chain...but you want a price and contract like you’re Walmart -you’re encouraged to lie to externals and make promises you know are B.S. -Get ready to posture to external parties and constantly defend against a horrifically negative, industry wide reputation -you will feel like you’re a wanna-be actor in Hollywood promoting your Instagram page that only has 20 followers, and one of them is your mom -incredibly high turnover, honestly probably close to 50%. The only people that stay are either Europeans or people who are too young to know any better -don’t listen to any advice you get on how to manage people. Ever. In fact, do the exact opposite. -drink the company cool aid or else -The European senior leadership absolutely refuses to acknowledge any of the serious problems the company has -the CEO of the entire global company called the US expansion “a disaster”, so there’s that... -we’ve been through three CEO’s in three years and multiple VP’s. Then, they keep bringing over other people from Europe to fix problems...in America. Where they’ve never been before. -if you join now, it will probably feel like you’re on the titanic and there are not enough lifeboats for everyone. Don’t worry, though, the band will keep playing and the Captain will say “what iceberg?” if you ask him for advice
