Pros
Vibrant atmosphere, in-person collaboration, great office environment
Kontras
While the general office environment was great in the US, the tricky leadership dynamic that is sprawled out globally (India) proves to be not only challenging but a degrading work environment. While they will bring you in to the marketing department claiming they are on board with your direction and help set benchmarks for expectations, they will quickly turn against you and the very strategy they helped put in place. When leadership has conversations, they will continually leave out the very people they tasked with working on critical deliverables and turn against you. Rather than give you an opportunity to discuss reasonable ways to pivot or change course, they will take it upon themselves to go over your head and cut you out, because it is how they deal with things (or don't in my opinion). Rather than listen to the very expertise they hired on, you will be degraded and called names and embarrassed on calls out of nowhere. You will be accused with false claims and given a surprise review, which is a real means to an end for them to create an unreasonable and unnecessary "30 day plan" in which you are intended to fail miserably. They do NOT want you to succeed with them. The way they treat you while working on projects is completely unreasonable -- expectations are set, and then the entire course is upended with no notice and guidance or time enough to pivot. Just when you think you are on track and on course, leadership will lash out unexpectedly and try to shake you to your core. They do not care about their people in a true sense - it's all for the website and promotion. SPECTRAFORCE boasts a vibrant and people-focused culture, but do not promote this whatsoever within their cutthroat leadership tactics and behind-the-back ways of working around you if you speak up. They will work you to the bone and then discard you when you decide you have enough courage to ask a question or challenge when someone has erased you from a big decision that impacts your work. There were 14 total people in my department who were forced out or had to leave within 2 years because the marketing culture was so toxic it was unsalvageable. I witnessed an excellent director-level coworker get treated so horribly it felt like it was out of a movie. Fake claims made against her work ethic and output and a "surprise review" with the intention to push her out when she spoke up about a website project that she was entirely left out of. A month later, the same situation happened with me. Two months prior, a dedicated mentor who was my supervisor left due to an unbearable workload and toxic management and leadership. This happens again and again with SPECTRAFORCE. Do not subject yourself to this culture and toxicity in marketing.
