Vantaggi
I was unemployed, so getting a paycheck was an improvement, at the time. Unfortunately, that was quickly eclipsed by the negatives that I list below.
Svantaggi
The company is very small. There are a handful of old hands who have been there forever. Everyone else is much newer and there's a lot of turnover with the remainder of the staff. This is both due to people quitting and being let go. Management does not treat people well, so some quit. Others are let go, one former employee I worked with was let go for some pretty flimsy reasons, to put it lightly. I believe they staff up to deal with a need, and then come up with justification to let people go to keep headcount down and profits up. Pay, at least for me, was lower than industry standard and other than health insurance, there's not much in the way of benefits. Their time-off policy is probably the most draconian of any I've ever heard of. There's this weird kind of "vibe" in the office that one picks up pretty quickly after starting, that something isn't quite right. Employees don't really talk to one another, there's no friendly conversations with co-workers and it's peculiar. This is apparently the environment the management wants, as I was reprimanded (yes, reprimanded) for exchanging brief pleasantries with a co-worker in the morning. As in, "Good morning, how are you?" Apparently they view that sort of thing as disruptive. If I had to do the whole thing over, I'd probably have never started there. It wasn't a positive experience and I left work every day in a bad mood and venting to my friends and family. One final note, there's a review here from an administrative assistant, which is curious, as that position didn't exist when I was there, and the times do seem to overlap.
