Can't recommend taking a job here - Anonymous employee DAC Employee Review

This is specifically about the NY offices and content team. I don't know much about the rest of the company. - Management treats the team like children. Reprimands publicly and privately if you dare to ask a question or speak out. Sends multiple reminders before every town hall meeting that cameras MUST be on because attendance will be taken (!!) and don't you dare wear a hat or hoodie. Demands that you stay online to finish work. -OT without pay: There was a culture of telling team members to stay online past their contracted hours to finish work. It was sneaky and often done through the team leads. Way too many people on the team worked nights and weekends and never got paid extra for it. But there was always too much work to do so they felt like they had to. -Didn't fire people who needed to be fired for continuous performance and ethics issues over months/years. -RTO was a mess. They make people within commuting distance go into the office on random days when none of their team members are there. There are not even enough desks for everyone and it's a total waste of a day. This is not work that needs to be done in an office. It was obviously just for appearances. - Company relies too much on AI for creative content. Everything got bland as time went on. - There was no real advancement or opportunities to transfer within the company. Even though there was supposed to be a professional development benefit, no one I know actually got to use it because whatever they proposed was not considered relevant to their job. The only way to move up was to suck up to management and take on a lot of extra work just to get a position that barely paid more. Certain managers were on a power trip. Raises and bonuses were basically nonexistant. -Any time I had a question for HR or payroll, it was a mess trying to figure out who to contact and then getting the runaround. No one seems to know who is responsible for what. I left by choice because I saw things going downhill. I can't even recommend working here to people I dislike.