Pros
The office location was great.
Cons
This place was bonkers. The relationship to HQ in China was weirdly adversarial. I was literally instructed to befriend the American employee on the team in China in order to "get information" from him and was told that I was not to be transparent with him about our plans. Even though we were working on the same game! It was duplicitous and honestly, gross. Misogyny was also raging in this place. Male staffers from China HQ would visit and some would not even acknowledge me when I spoke to them. I mean they wouldn't even look at me. When I asked a long-time employee why this was, he told me with a shrug that it was because I was a woman and worse, that I was an American woman. I was blown away at how blatant their behavior was and frustrated that it was totally normalized at this company. I was hired in at the same level as that same long-time employee. We had a great working relationship. I really liked and respected him. After a couple of months, the eccentric head of the US team called me into his office and told me that he was going to put me in a supervisor position over the long-time employee. I emphatically told him this would be a mistake because it would create resentment from my colleague who had been there longer and should be given that role. I said I absolutely didn't want the job and left the meeting thinking the matter was resolved. He ignored me and promoted me anyway. And as I'd predicted, this employee that I'd once had a great relationship with, immediately became openly antagonistic and passive aggressive toward me. All of a sudden he was insulting me and making rude comments toward me in meetings. Privately, I tried explaining to him that I'd turned the promotion down. It didn't matter, he kept up with his abuse. Leadership and colleagues witnessed his behaviors in meetings and did nothing about the new toxic dynamic. With no support, I took it upon myself to move desks in the office because of the negative behavior of this employee who sat across from me. Ultimately, I was fired and was told it was because I didn't fix the hostile atmosphere that now existed. So to recap: I warned that promoting me would create toxicity and was ignored, was the target of the toxicity I'd predicted and suffered under a hostile work environment, got no help from leadership, and then was blamed and fired for a toxic situation I tried to thwart, didn't create and got zero support for. And for context, apart from this job, I've never been fired in my entire 20+ year professional life. Why do I share this particular story? Because the colleague that switched from being totally great with me to full blown antagonism as soon as I was promoted, is also the same employee who casually told me I was being ignored by HQ staff because I was a woman... and he's now a top C-level leader at Snail Games USA. So beware.