Pros
Free snacks. Gym facility in the office. They can throw a party. Genuinely nice people who you bound over mutual misery. Free booze, which you do need to survive here.
Cons
When you join Next Jump, the first thing you’ll notice is a barrage of NxJ jargons. There are so many of those (mostly pointless) that they hand you sheets full of them as part of the onboarding package. NoLHF (Lying, Hiding, Faking) being one of them. Which is probably the most hypocritical thing you’ll notice right away. It only gets worse. Where does one even start? How about no HR? Which basically gives the co-CEOs free reign to do and say as they please with no repercussions. Especially Mr. Kim (CK) who is known to make crude, sleazy remarks towards the female employees to get some cheap laughs. He humiliates employees in front of the whole company nevertheless, on regular basis in the name of giving “honest truth” but God-Forbid if someone dares provide similar (anonymous) feedback to them - then it becomes an “attack” and you will get emails to Back Off and threats to be furloughed, exposed or axed. co-CEOs: This brings me to the whole co-CEOs debacle. No one knows or understands why this decision was made a few years back. CK is extremely arrogant and a bona fide narcissist. The other CEO is a rambling, incoherent damsel in distress who craves constant sympathy and support while providing none herself. Was she added to show diversity, as she adds or brings nothing to the table? Or maybe just to validate CK’s unethical behaviors, as her only function seems to be to agree and nod to everything CK says… without any shame. They also have a messiah complex, so much so they are calling the new office “Chapel” and they claimed in a company-wide meeting that when people listen to their talks, it’s like they have found Jesus... Exactly. They also surround themselves with Yes-men (MV21) only whose jobs are to bow before them without question and implement their corrupt orders and policies. PLB: When you join, you are immediately put into this grueling, pseudo-psychological program called PLB, where you have to share your deepest and darkest secrets. If they aren’t tragic enough, you might be spending months and months in this program doing customer service tickets before you get to do the actual job you were hired for. I was told to fake stories and tears just so I could “graduate” and get out of it. That doesn’t stop there. Throughout your time at NxJ, you’ll be asked to present in front of the whole company how you are developing yourself by again sharing intimate details about your personal life. Everyone will judge and rate you on your presentation, even employees who have no idea who you are. The dramatic the story, the more brownie points you’ll earn, and management will praise you for being “brave” but later hold everything you shared against you. A group of “expert” panel will also judge you on the spot and give you tips on how to be a better employee, person, parent, child despite having none of those qualities themselves. Management: Upper management is probably the worst humans you will ever meet. One of them is in a habit of calling meetings with 5 - 10 mins notice and if you don’t reply promptly, you lack ownership and care. They pretend to care for your physical and mental health but it’s all a façade. Their life goal seems to be to make you miserable just because they themselves are. Micromanagement is common despite giving the illusion of “ownership” and decisions are made on a whim rather than data available. There is no reasoning with them or you will immediately be labeled and replaced. Employee Treatment: The employees are treated as literal slaves with no regard for their personal lives. Work/life balance doesn’t exist. You are expected to work 12+ hours a day on regular basis. Insurance is awful and no one wants to fix it just coz the ‘wealthy’ mgt doesn’t care. Taking PTOs is frowned upon and oftentimes is flat out rejected even if you have genuine reasons. If your morale is down, it’s always your fault. You'll be gaslight to a point that you will start questioning your own existence. Premium vs Basic: This new open discrimination was the last straw for many. Basically, moving forward you will be labeled Partner if you are willing to come to the office and meet certain criteria - which basically means selling your soul to them. You obey without any ifs, and, or buts and in return you'll get all the supposed perks. Or you are Basic if you prefer to WFH, meaning you are pretty much disposable and can be disposed off any time and without any reason. This goes against everything this company claims to stand for. Out of everyone who “applied” to be a Partner, only ONE was picked and 4 follow-ups. They completely disregard years and years of hard work one has put in and picked based on who’s working on their next pet project at the moment. CK has claimed over and over he can run the company with just 4 people and this is exactly where they are heading. The turnover rate has been crazy, almost 50% of the workforce has quit within an year or so but the mgt simply refuses to acknowledge that it’s an issue. Whoever is left, has to do 4/5 person’s jobs by themselves and still gets no recognition or empathy from the top. They are high on “outsourcing” everything but how the company operates and how unreasonable the deadlines are - they can never retain an external relationship. Everything is crumbling down but the sheer arrogance of co-CEOs is blinding them to acknowledge it.