Pros
My manager and team were supportive, empathetic, and dedicated to maintaining a good work-life balance for everyone. I will truly miss them and enjoyed my time working with them, as well as most of my other colleagues on the creative production team. However, my negative experiences with leadership far outweigh the positives of working here.
Cons
If you're anything like me, you read negative reviews on sites like Glassdoor and think, "Well, this was probably a one-off experience. There's no way it will be as bad for me!" Let me tell you, while this place offers decent pay and benefits, you will be broken down daily by toxic leadership. You will eventually forget your worth after being belittled by leadership who treats specialists and middle managers like nuisances. Most will not even respond to emails from employees below their level yet will gladly take credit for your work. Promotions have been frozen for a year and a half in many departments or are promised but never given. The new marketing director, shockingly, is even worse than the previous one. He has no regard for employees and will do anything to appease shareholders. While this is common in corporate America, there are many companies out there who will at least pretend to care about their employees. This is the icing on the cake: After going fully remote globally in spring 2022, the new CEO announced RTO with a 3-week notice. Remote employees were allowed to submit cases to stay remote, and on the Friday before the RTO date, all cases were denied, giving remote employees two days to relocate to their office in Arlington, VA. I asked for an extension to move and they never answered nor relayed the consequences of not returning. I was eventually fired and told that because I did not RTO, they were considering this my resignation, clearly to avoid paying unemployment. If you want to work for a company equivalent to Twitter when Elon Musk took over, go for it. But this place is not sustainable for anyone who is looking to grow or do good work, as all work is micromanaged to an extreme degree by out-of-touch leadership. Do not work here if you want to be appreciated on any basic human level. This place is a corporate nightmare. Also, who knows if they'll survive the American market for much longer. They do secret layoffs constantly for a reason.
