Pros
Energetic, youthful, talented, friendly teammates with whom you'll grow close due to trauma bonding, basically. It's malls and shopping and retail and stuff so, if you're into that, it's not a bad 'subject matter' for your day. Corporate, and cooperate-y, but in a boring, steady, mindless way. If you were in a different position, in a different department, I imagine you could kind of float through and make decent money with decent benefits. It's Marketing, so... the stakes are pretty low. We're not saving lives. Not that management would ever acknowledge this. They crave chaos because they're not the ones doing the actual work. Even with a reasonable workload, the atmosphere and false prioritization and lack of strategy/alignment/sticking to the plan means that it'll be chaos, always. No light at the end of this tunnel.
Cons
The corporate marketing team has had about 20 departures in 2 years. The constant rotation means that the team has effectively been training and onboarding, continuously. This is hugely expensive - time, money, equipment and staff patience + exhaustion. It is negligent of leadership to allow this to continue. It's a difficult market right now, and you have a department head who actively chases away talent. Any issue, challenge or criticism is faced with disbelief and a scapegoat. Accountability is like rain in a desert - desperately needed, often discussed, absolutely precious, but rarely, rarely experienced. Interpersonal relationships are exhausting. Everyone is running a game. Leadership would rather put on an elaborate show about sunshine and rainbows than address an unpleasant topic, head-on. There's always some elaborate plan. The Directors can know first. Then, 7 minutes later, the Managers. Then, let's wait until tomorrow morning to tell everyone else, because we totally believe it'll stay confidential... as if the whole team can't see/hear what's going on from the get-go. They'll even do this with an issue that originates in lower staff. It's so oblivious and classist and silly. Like, they truly believe the "peons" don't talk to each other, or share, or gossip. "Leadership" means pretending every piece of news is a high-security state secret. Everyone saw the proverbial IG story. Just stop. The job is basically providing hospice care to C level malls in towns you'd never otherwise visit. That's fine, it's could be a fine, cozy corporate job. instead, it's the most stressful environment I've ever worked in. It's not worth it. It's too costly to your mental and physical well-being.
