A good job for employees from relatively low-income countries, especially those who can code, generate leads, or sell.
Pros
Schedule and location flexibility was nice, as was the general autonomy. The people who reported to me were great, and eager for the guidance I provided during my relatively short tenure.
Cons
Low compensation, borderline non-existent benefits, shoestring budgets/resources. "Creative" incentive structures that result in backsliding pay, while avaricious executives concomitantly double their draw and duplicitously feign that you're getting a fair shake despite having no idea what the job entails. An amount of administrative chaos that one would expect from a substantially off-shored employee base working in a transactionally complex environment with no proper guidance for the better part of a decade, exacerbated by the fact that nobody in the company even knows what a bank reconciliation is (much less how or why to do one). There is basically half a decade worth of technical debt, from a financial statement close process perspective, and virtually zero control environment. Leadership prioritizes vanity metrics (e.g. gross revenue, despite the company being an agent rather than a principal) so as to publicly spin the company as larger than life during interviews, and consequently plays favourites with those departments which can increase the top line. Finally, the digitial advertising industry is absolute trash. Google "Tom Lockwood Ad Tech Sucks" for reasons why.
