The best for your long term career, sometimes the worst on the way!
Pros
A organisation that lifts people up fast, as if a routine task. You'll be headhunted externally within a couple of years and offered promotions internally to compete - for good reason. Regardless of role or function; expect to become sharper, faster, action orientated, more confident and massively successful. Was lucky to have a brilliant HR business partner pulling the back office management back on track every day, plus an amazing and caring team in Finance. Expect to be supported, encouraged to grow and take risks, enjoy complete flexibility with work hours, and a broad range of social activities.
Cons
Growth means operating outside your comfort zone and can be painful to different levels for different people. With so many young people across the organisation in this space; come short term actions under stress, strained relationships, and feelings of being impacted by others, but lacking the awareness of the impacts of own actions. Creativity and drive, lead to more work, and with a prize of promotion, a hunger to win, and an expectation of success; competition decreases people's empathy for each other. Virtuous cycles can become destructive and long in some areas.
