Pros
Free breakfast and lunch is a pretty great perk, it definitely takes away the drama of making lunch every day. It's also awesome having coffee available whenever you want it. It's a nice office space, and everyone is pretty friendly in the team itself.
Cons
I'm writing this even though I still work here, because we just had some new people start, and there'll probably be more I guess, and I really want people to know what it's actually like here before they accept a job. The perks of free food and stuff are great, but the salary is below what other places would be paying, so you have to take that into account. I always thought companies provided perks like that on top of a normal salary - that's what made them so cool - but here you basically get them instead of a normal salary, which is okay I guess, but it's good to keep it in mind. The teams are great, I really like the people I work with and everyone helps each other out on tricky problems - BUT, that's only in the teams themselves. Once you start going up the chain, there's a heap of drama. The owners and the COO lord over everyone and if you aren't there friends, you basically have no chance of getting any opportunity for growth or leadership. I saw someone else write that on here, and the response was 'we are friends with people who do the right thing' or something, but that's really not true. If you aren't there friend (or weren't there friend before you started) then you will probably just stay in the same role forever until you leave. You don't see the management team unless there's something wrong or except on a Friday afternoon when they appear for 5 minutes and then go play games with there friends. If you sit on the wrong side of the office, you could easily go weeks without seeing them. They don't make any effort to get to know new staff, and half the time I don't think they know our names. They don't like to be questioned about their decisions, and they don't like anyone else having an idea about something. If you do, they ignore it, or they get rid of you. They actually said to someone "IT'S MY PLAYGROUND, MY RULES" because the person was worried about how they were responding to the coronavirus stuff. They really don't like females in the workplace. I saw another review that mentioned it, and the response was "we have two that have been here however many years" - what they didn't say was how many females:males there were. I think there are maybe 55-60 people working here but less than 5 females in total. One left recently, so it might even be less. None of them are in leadership or management positions either. I don't think that will ever happen. Everything is run based on fear. Your monitored on camera 24/7 in the office - from how many bathroom breaks you take, whether you stop to talk to someone on the way to or from the bathroom, whether you look at your mobile phone, scratch your head, or whatever. I've never worked anywhere like that. I don't think it's normal in an office!!!! You also get penalised for minor things, even if it's out of your control - if you're late to work because there was a crash on the freeway or something, you get penalised publicly in front of the team. It's supposed to be motivating but it's the opposite. I probably will leave soon, so I wanted to post this, because I don't want the next person to think it's a great place and then get stressed out and hate it either.
