Pros
The office had decent coffe and the commute was manageable.
Cons
. You could not make a single call without dragging it through endless layers of approval- even the smallest decisions came back buried in questions, and no explanation was ever considered good enough anyway.
. Every email was dissected, every client conversation was monitored, and the message was painfully obvious: management had zero confidence in employees.
. I spent more time defending my choices than actually getting work done, which destroyed any momentum because everything moved at the pace of whoever finally decided to respond that day.
. Constant micromanagement slowly destroys you confidence — after enough of it, you stop trusting your own judgment because nobody around you does either.
. Eventually you are no longer working, just mechanically waiting for instructions like a puppet.
. Problem solving was treated like some kind of threat instead of the exact reason people were hired in the first place.