Pros
The junior staff and parts of the senior staff are creative, inspiring and believe in the R29 mission and collaboratively working with others. They are passionate about pushing you to be your best everyday and believe in you and your work. It's one of the best places to collaboratively work with passionate people in connection to the content delivered on the site. You will come out a better person and creative if you keep your head down and do the work.
Cons
Executives refuse to properly train and hire directors with experience to fit the titles, favoritism is the name of the game at R29. If you have a large social following and are deemed a "favorite" you can choose your title, project and team. The idea of a director having experience or being trained to lead a team is insignificant to higher management, the quality of the content, supervision and training of the junior staff suffer as a result. Titles are given out like candy (with salaries and bonuses) that are far exceed the experience of people in senior and director roles. As a result the junior staff works exceptionally hard for pennies and are told to be thankful for even receiving a bonus. R29 is inspiring and its easy to get caught up in the startup vibe, unfortunately its lack in management and support for hard working experienced staff fail to live up to its mission. Don't expect to be mentored by directors or ask questions, this is a place you go in do the work and get the experience.
