Vantaggi
Working towards a mission I believe in with some of the best colleagues I’ve ever worked with. 35-hour weeks, though most people worked overtime (unpaid).
Svantaggi
It’s nearly impossible to get a raise or promotion. The marketing division restructures every few years and it feels like you spend more time justifying your job and explaining it to new managers than actually doing work. There are some good managers who support their team but the four managers I had in 6 years were lackluster at best and manipulative at worst. My last manager told me that low wages (a couple thousand above being considered “low income” in my city) is a worthy price to pay for such a great workplace. In my experience, the workload was so heavy that I could rarely take time off as there was no backup for my position. Plus making so little, and having next to no autonomy or authority to actually do my job, it was not a great workplace. After I left I learned how many others had been pushed out and hushed up. It’s toxic and not worth the mental health toll unless you have money from some other source or luck into a team with a good manager (and then pray they never leave).