Pros
Friday afternoons were slightly less chaotic than the rest of the week.
Cons
In my interview, they spent half the time talking about how long this role was different, how I'd actually shape strategy and work with leadership on project direction-- said it multiple times, which honestly should've been a red flag. But I wanted to believe them and went in excited, and then I just... executed for months. No strategy conversations, no real input on anything that mattered, just taking orders from above. The autonomy they promised didn't exist --every decision needed approval, every suggestion delay got delayed or killed, and when I pushed back, I was basically told that's how things work here so get with the program. I watched the other PMs just accept it, which honestly gets old. By the month six I realized the "collaborative environment" they'd painted was just fiction, a selling tactic.