Pros
The only upside is bonding with coworkers by undergoing the same demoralizing work environment with no lights at the end of the tunnel.
Cons
If you value working for: • a meaningful product: the company is just doing a cash grab at this point and selling whatever they can get made cheaply enough in China. The mission about oral care might have been genuine at first, but it hasn’t been an actual principle guiding any decisions for a long time because... • values and culture: there is none of that to speak of. The only signs of values you can find of the company are the virtue-signaling posts on its Instagram with a plug to their site. Leadership does not care about work-life balance (you WILL get slack messages from the CEO at midnight no matter the day), and communication about projects and initiatives is inevitably pointless because decisions are already made at the top level. As a worker, you are only going to (be able to) execute their decisions and try to meet their whimsical deadlines. • money: there’s no bonus, no promotions and the company’s stock doesn’t mean anything. Need I say more? If you are a designer (or people with souls in general), please do yourself a favor and run from this. The product team runs like a frat house with all of the chaos and bullies and sycophantic characters, and none of the partying. Your input will not be valued and your work will not matter (unless you have a passion for optimizing coupon pixels and making up user research, I guess).