Pros
If they remembered you get a bottle of bubbly for your 1 year anniversary or your first placement. The ones that work themselves to the bone get a crate of beer or a bottle of wine.
Cons
Firstly the candidate experience is completely awful, they make it seem as though you are interviewing for a spectacular company as you go through 4-5 interviews just for a recruiter role. If you arrive on time or leave on time (your contracted hours) others who have been there the longest and brainwashed the most would make comments like ‘half day is it’ or ‘part-timer’. If this becomes a habit they actually speak to you about the lack of efforts you are putting in. Quarterly reviews and probation reviews are awful. You will be picked up on all the negatives things you’ve done and then they will leave about 2 minutes at the end of the meeting to run through anything good you’ve done. This happens even if you are top of the leaderboard and pass probation. You have to ask to go to get an ice cream from the ice cream van. There is absolutely 0 trust. If they notice inactivity for 5 mins or more they ask you what you were doing within those times. God forbid you need to go to the toilet or take a break from the phones and screens. You are not allowed to take gifts from partners. They literally strip all thrills from the job. You cannot wear anything less than office attire. One ‘benefit’ listed in the original job description was early finishes on a Friday. You’d wait, anticipating every week if this would be the case and if the top dogs had already left for the day you’d already know your outcome… big fat no. All in all the founders drive ridiculous old fashioned working conditions and the long standing employees don’t know how much better they could be treated because they’ve only ever worked there and have been brain washed to think that that’s how staff should be treated. Also pay is abismal. The turnover is ridiculously high. Some people spend a couple of days and realise they need to leave and then the company says ‘oh they couldn’t handle recruitment’ - complete utter BS. Would highly recommend to run as fast as you can in the opposite direction.