Pros
- Great team (predominately young women) - Great benefits package (no 401K, and claiming PTO is tricky) - Very focused on sustainability and some progressive social politics - Interesting job with a lot of flexibility in assignments - Cool and inspiring environment - Technology driven (in practice and partnership) - Well suited for young professionals - New company energy with a lot of precedent to be set - Great opportunity for networking w/ other businesses (and owners)
Cons
- Despite preaching values on equity and being an EOE, the company and other Scully affiliates on campus are predominately staffed by white, cis, straight people. - The building is not truly accessible to disabled peoples and does have missing elements (no elevator) or ineffective ones (broken/missing auto-door buttons) that make operating in and out of the space difficult without regular assistance. - No availability for growth (no promotions, raises, or career expectations). - Superiors regularly take off early, take vacation time, or are absent from the campus. This leaves the responsibility of day-to-day management, building customer relationships, and setting up for partnership events almost entirely on the lower level staff most weeks. - For such a small team (1-10 people), the disparities between pay and assigned work is out of hand and arbitrarily awarded. Relative to lower level employees, some team leads or managers can make almost $20,000-$50,000 more despite having only marginally different tasks. - Very little transparency from Leadership Team members. - Compared to the Leadership Team, lower level employees are held to a much higher standard of work output. This issue is exacerbated by a lack of clear hierarchy in the company structure which allows all higher leveled employees to task, instruct, or reprimand lower level employees outside the purview of their respective department heads. Lower level employees should be prepared to be regularly criticized for not accomplishing tasks to the subjective standards of one higher level employee (despite fulfilling the wishes of all others), and should expect much more work than what their job description describes--especially in comparison to higher-ups. It's truly a thankless job. - The onus of tracking work hours, pay periods, project allotments, task disbursement, or even work hardships (like overworking or workplace harassment) are on the employee. There is no HR or outside body that helps to manage these things. If no self-supplied "evidence" is present at the time of providing feedback your commentary will be fully ignored. Being overworked is attributed to a lack of personal time management. - As an employee you will never have a straight answer from superiors, will regularly be misquoted/misinformed, and will learn to accept less pay and praise for more of your time. Note that "initiative" is also tracked arbitrarily. - Conversations with Leadership Team members are rarely recorded or followed-through. Lower level employees should not trust their superiors to look out for their best interests.
