Growth impossible, great resume builder
Pros
The illusion of working at a cool company. The ghost of a formerly cutting edge, purposeful, fashion-oriented organization who will keep you company in your darkest moments of existential dread and convince you not to give up on life altogether. Many of the OG people who work/worked here are smart as hell and incredible people... somehow collectively not able to get it together.
Cons
I could go on and on about everything negative that I obsereved in my three years at this company but I'll spare you. I will say that this is a place that will promise you far beyond what they will ever actually offer you when it comes to career growth and support. Although built on a wonderfully fluffy and non-specific and somehow apolitical form of feminism, Refinery29 has lost its voice. Once a place that served a genuine purpose, pushed aesthetic boundaries, and had actual SERVICE to its readers, it is now a destintation for the most regurgitated forms of trendy interenet faux-activism and tired obsrevations of cultural milieu. Oh, and they treat their employees poorly but not as poorly as they pay them. All that being said, the bottom line is that the company is suffering which is why they just laid of 8% of its staff and have lost at least 4 C-level executives in the last 18 months. They tried to be more than anyone wanted them to be ( a sickness that all publishing companies currently suffer from). No one wants to subscribe to "the biggest media company for millenial women". We all see through the giant corporations now and what we see is not inspiring, it's depressing.
