Pros
The "worker bee" people are amazing. Kind, caring and gracious. They made it worth staying.
Cons
As a mid-senior level female manager, I felt completely unsupported and constantly set up to fail. Executive leadership (XD) points fingers, throws employees under the bus and uses manipulation and blame as a way of "managing". I was constantly met with resistance to change without any recommendation from leadership. They label managers who say NO to wild, unrealistic job requests (in efforts to protect exhausted, overworked employees) as inflexible. There is zero respect or priority for the integrity of creative process or ideation. The level of dysfunction at this company was too much to bear. Additionally, I was told I could only hire a new female employee if I "softened her up because she was too edgy". In her interview with XD executive leadership, she was told "work/life balance is a cop out". They promote the culture as being "authentically you" but say things like that behind closed doors. You must fit an extremely conservative mold at this company. The turnover rate in the XD department is increasingly high and saddening. Promotions and raises only happen when someone quits. Men and women are not paid equally for the same role.
