Pros
- they hired me when I had no experience in healthcare comms - occasional free lunch - starting off my first full-time job experience with everything I can make sure to avoid in the future
Cons
In addition to agreeing with everyone else's comments on the lack of work-life balance, the sorority mean girl style of leadership, baseline DE&I Efforts, mistreatment of junior staff, micromanagement, lack of adequate training, emphasis on billability, ineffective IT department, and more, I want to talk about the specific way they handle mental health and neurodivergent individuals. Symptoms and characteristics of mental illness and learning disabilities are punished, even with full visibility into that being the cause of the "issues". I haven't felt heard and I feel like I've been gaslit into thinking that I'm doing something wrong. Up until recently, I had been so busy in my personal and academic life to realize that those things weren't the cause of my declining mental health, it was work. For mental health awareness month, I wish they'd have employees share some insights into working full-time with mental illness or personal ways that we can improve wellbeing, instead of turning it into another commercialized attempt to pretend they care. I understand that we should be putting our best work forward, but the level of micromanagement on internal things and formatting preferences is unreal and almost impossible to keep up with. This job has been way more socially isolating and damaging than college was. Speaking of college, they didn't acknowledge or compensate me differently at all when I finished my graduate degree as a full-time employee.