Pluspunten
- Hard to say there were any. Perhaps just developing a greater ability to sustain intellectual and emotional pain?
Minpunten
- Management (aka the CEO/publisher/creative director/whatever else he's calling himself these days) is a mess. There is a deep sense of confusion as to what direction the company wants to go in, leading to half-baked ideas and unsustainable execution of said ideas. - There is an archaic and deeply disturbing culture of bullying present in the company. The CEO will constantly berate, embarrass, scold, and humiliate employees in front of other employees and even visitors. Worse yet, he will try to joke and laugh with you a minute later in horribly sexist and pseudo-racist ways. It's egregious and something I would have reported to HR (but oh wait, there is no HR!). - Employee morale is constantly extremely low, leading to high turnovers. In my time there (a little under a year), there was a 50% turnover rate in a 6 person company. I think that says plenty about how horrible a place this is to work. - The pay is not only abysmal, it is criminally low, regardless of the position you hold. And even if you do attain a promotion (which I've seen him give and take back on a whim), the CEO will squirm, make excuses, and quite simply lie to not give the promised raise that goes along with it. - There are no benefits or compensations whatsoever. There is also no kitchen or any quality of work life. It's an extremely depressing office to work in. - Because of how cheap the CEO is, there is a severe issue of understaffing. This leads to editors becoming designers, designers becoming editors, administrators becoming accountants and so on and so forth. That then causes the production of substandard work.