Pros
1 - The team (on lower levels of seniority) I worked with were great fun, probably because we were all bonded by the trauma of working there. 2 - There was a nice coffee machine.
Cons
Where do you even start with this absolute car crash of a company? Terrible management, no vision, forward planning or future-proofing for success, no benefits (oh but we have early finish on Fridays!!! No, we finish at 5 instead of 5:30), they've never even heard of work-life balance, pay was diabolical, massive favouritism and gender bias amongst colleagues, disgusting levels of (what felt like) gaslighting from the senior leadership team, dangerous levels of stupidity from management, hire and fire culture (some people only keeping their jobs for mere weeks), management set those below them up to fail and then blame them for the failures, a new (unnecessary) product launch every week that would be rushed through and then postponed for months because of safety / legal / stock issues, EVERYTHING had to be a meeting instead of a 3 line email - more to the point we had meetings about meetings which is why nothing ever got done on time, a 'daily check in' at 8:30 aka surveillance to ensure you're online on the dot meaning absolutely no flexibility of work, no trust in people (who are excellent at what they do) to do their job properly, people 'love' the brand - but the brand relies heavily on smutty marketing that excludes a huge percentage of cyclists and would then laugh at the 'woke' comments about sexism within the office, working patterns were pure chaos and no structure to campaigns or launches, the word 'strategy' was thrown around endlessly purely because the SLT couldn't understand that they in fact did not need a strategy but just a plan - and yet the business / marketing / sales strategies were non-existent, hire a bunch of young talented eager creatives and then beat them into submission and kill their energy but blame them when they're producing sub-standard work, WHAT occupational health support? drones on about 'industry knowledge is a must' and yet half the company have no knowledge of their actual role, products are overpriced and under-performing, no autonomy of your own workload, constant micro-management makes you feel absolutely crazy on the day to day, the fear of losing your job every moment of the day leers over you which sends your blood pressure through the roof and generally just a horribly traumatic place to work! Need I go on? The positive reviews here are merely people who have been favoured by the business and are a huge part of the problem with the culture - they get a pat on the back and a nice pay packet to look the other way when things aren't right, hence why in a team of 20, only 3 managed to keep their job in a period of 2 years... wild! Don't do it to yourself, you'll regret it!