Pros
A fast-paced and challenging environment with great opportunities to solve difficult problems on your own. An intern run company. Employees are fun to work with.
Cons
Not the best place for career progression as they have yet to figure out their structure. Some of the senior management has poor communication skills and would rather send passive-aggressive hints than to directly communicate with you professionally or even on a human level. The company demands a lot but gives little in exchange for the time, blood, sweat, and tears that employees put in. We don't have many benefits here at Novelship and whatever we employees have done to boost morale back again (Friday Drinks, R&R) has been swiftly shut down for unknown reasons. The company's values are pretty much as standard as it gets - they don't do illegal things and that's a good thing. But expect no compassion or understanding from upper management as their style has always been to fight first, triage later, except the fight never ends. Also, the company severely lacks empathy and did a terrible job maintaining or even checking in on their employees' mental health during the Covid lockdown. Their lack of awareness of how their employees are doing mentally and emotionally has been somewhat troubling. The turnover rate for new hires has been really high and throughout my time working here I've seen employees barely lasting a few months. This can also be attributed to the company's international team (who do tremendous work) and the bulk of interns they hire to fill up the manpower.