Pros
Colleagues and team member relationships can be amazing. There are some really good employees (lower management and teammates). A job there can look good on a resume. Family can come in on Halloween to trick or treat and they are invited to bring family to see Santa and get free photos at Christmas time as well as cookies and little activities or prizes; it's something really special for a lot of younger children and their families. They have a day at the amusement park, Lagoon, where employees and their families come when the park is reserved for this company only; no long lines due to public or other groups besides OSTK employees being at the park. It's really the best Lagoon experience one could have AND they raffle prizes and have other fun things available to do. There is also a concert the company pays for which may not always be friendly to entire family (i.e. children), but are good date nights or fun for adults. -keep in mind when they ask the company to vote on who should come in concert that that your vote only counts if you choose the same performer as the company president. Once votes for a different artist surpass votes for her preference, the votes are no longer counted. I guess the pro to that is at least you feel like your input was important and considered.). There are also other fun activities at work throughout the year for different occasions. So there are fun things that happen here. Keep in mind, these are special activities that happen occasionally. They are far different than most regular work days.
Cons
There are definitely more cons than pros at this company. To provide a comprehensive list would take a lot of time and work. So I will highlight some of the worst reasons for being at this company. The president manages through fear, humiliation, manipulation and emotion. She holds onto grudges, and rarely lets go no matter how bad it may be for the company. Power and ego for her seem more important than being successful. She makes some poor decisions in haste due to her emotions, which run her versus her controlling her emotions. She's not an entirely bad person; she does have some good, but she is full of rage and pointless anger and will direct it in any undeserved direction at any time. It's a very unhealthy place-emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Many in upper management are poor at being organized and distributing a handable amount of work with reasonable and realistic time expectations. Then when you can't do the work of a non-human superhero, they blame YOU that something is done poorly rather than recognizing they give too much work and not enough time to complete it and do it well. The pay, which was supposedly going to improve (and has for some, but not equally or fairly amongst the workforce) is bad. Besides a few job positions, you can expect to be underpaid compared to the industry average. The work life balance is good for some positions. Others, it's non-existent. If they want something it doesn't matter where you are or what tragic or important thing might be taking place, their wants come before your life needs (this is for some upper, upper management). Say what they may, nepotism IS an absolute part of this company. If a rebuttal is coming from the head of people care, I'll just say now that my issues and concerns were discussed with multiple people in HR and even you were aware of problems but did nothing about it. Also for the rebuttal about how the President isn't any of these bad things listed and is great and that work life balance is wonderful, anyone close to the situation knows the reality of the situation and that you're doing your job and trying to defend and positively reflect the company and the president in a positive light as well as making the company seem like an awesome place to work. If you didn't say these things, I can only imagine how horrible things would be for you personally. I'd do the same things in your shoes to avoid the wrath and fiery inferno that would come your way. Yes, there are good things; it's not all bad. But the bad clearly outweighs the positives. Say what you want, people care people. For anyone who actually chooses to come work there, they will in time see things as they really are as well as the sugar coating the management does to protect their image.