Pros
I made some pretty great friends working at DZAP/ LeaseLabs and for that I am thankful. You will probably never work at another place where your coworkers become some of your closest friends with whom you will regularly hang out with outside of the office. This is a good thing because you will need a trustworthy source to commiserate with and confide in about the horrors of your job/day/upper management boss. Nobody else will believe the stories that you share about being berated publicly in front of your peers by a mercurial crazy person unless they experience it themselves— and trust me, we’ve all been there.
Cons
The owner thrives on creating uncomfortable situations, unreasonable deadlines, and publicly embarrassing employees. It is absolutely impossible to get any task, small or significant, accomplished without going through multiple unnecessary revisions with upwards of 5 people. Minds and priorities change like the weather—to put it bluntly, this place is Machiavellian middle school. It’s a cruel, cut-throat, dishonest and overall unpleasant environment to work in. Upper management is juvenile, unprofessional, SPOILED and overall ineffective in their management of what many would consider a talented and capable staff. They pride themselves on the parties and company events that they throw which are essentially mandated culture events. The owner takes your absence deeply personal regardless of the reason for missing it, be it planned PTO, family events, or the need to go to your second job because you’re not getting paid enough at your “9-5.” (In quotes because 10 hour days are the norm here. Also, I hope you like eating lunch at your desk.) My favorite statement that I ever heard the owner say was “Nobody’s job here is safe” which brings me to my next warning to those considering a position here. Should you choose to work here, you will work long hours with little to no thanks for your efforts; you will be thrown under the bus; you will be screamed at for something you couldn’t possibly control; you will live with constant anxiety about your job security and you will likely need some kind of medical attention for the mental and physical conditions you will develop from working here. This is not an exaggeration.