Pros
- team members are great and honestly make the work environment more tolerable each day. - snacks and the office in general are good and it’s located in an accessible, central location. - resume builder - located in the heart of Arlington(Clarendon )
Cons
- unreasonable urgency with made up deadlines that make teams stress and stretch themselves thin over simple tasks. - very low compensation that doesn’t correlate to the demands and pressure of the job. - under qualified and unprofessional management that constantly hold their positions and experience at the firm over you like a guillotine. - you will require a regular rotation of medication just to keep your mental health balanced on twigs. The chronic stress and and toxic work culture are unsustainable and continue to go unaddressed. - luckily I wasn’t in admin, but they really need to do something about the way that they treat the assistants. Not sure how much they’re paid, but they often had to deal with so much. People at the firm constantly made them do the simplest of things like cleaning up trash in conference rooms, while being perfectly capable of doing so themselves. I felt so bad for them since they received multiple requests a day from me and many others, yet were under appreciated along with managers condescendingly looking down on them(often gossiping about them) while demanding the most. - don’t even get me started on the partner pleasing culture. There is no opportunity for open discussion between executive management and the rest of the firm(even if they try and make it seem like it). - for your sake, unless it’s a last resort, do not apply here or work here.