Pros
RV has 2 good, by South Carolinian standards, on-site cafeteria/kitchens. There are some good people there, but if you aren't in the right clique it won't matter how good you are. RV has programs to help under-served community members get a leg up in life. If you go into the job with the correct expectations, this is a great place to work! By the correct expectations, I mean your total sum ambition must be to coast and brown nose as needed. If you are comfortable with doing little and achieving nothing, Red Ventures is the place for you!
Cons
TL;DR - Red Ventures is a den of low-acheiving vipers who will viciously defend their nest of rot and malice. Gossip. Oh lordy, the gossip. It is worse than high school. If you have a spine, they will accuse you of being the problem. There were a couple of really good infrastructure security people that showed up in 2019 who fought for things that platform engineering should have been doing all along. Rather than work together, our director gave us explicit instructions to block their initiatives. This gatekeeping and kingdom defense is a normal part of life at RV. Eventually those engineers left the company and upon their exit the gossip train left the station to slur them and drag their names through the mud in true "Mean Girls" style. You will never finish anything. At RV, the standard operation procedure is to talk about a project for a few months and implement it half-way over the next few months. When questioned why the project is taking longer than expected our leadership will accuse the product, tool, or project of being bad. This begins the next few months of finding a new solution while tearing down the previous incomplete project. This cycle has summed up my entire 3yr+ tenure and I have seen nothing meaningful come to pass. RV will lie to your face. They will tell you whatever they think you want to hear in exchange for what they want from you. Just like they fail to follow through on projects, they will fail to follow through an anything they promise you. Ever since being woke became popular, RV has assigned homework to it's white employees. Example, read white fragility and join the book club of other selfloathing meatsacks to discuss what you learned. Keep in mind, your true assignment here is to virtue signal harder than anyone else lest the gossip train label you a racist. You are not valued. Period. Paragraph.