Pros
Pay is very good. Some colleagues I worked really well with. Allowed remote work.
Cons
Where do I start? I am a video producer who makes vivid and colorful content like music videos, video game trailers, etc - I asked in my interviews here why they approached me for a role at FP. "We want you to shake things up". Ok. I can do that. My hands were tied from the moment I walked in the door. Nevermind the mountain of red tape, or the 3-5 hour long "weekly review" meetings I had to attend every single day - every time I tried to push for a new creative idea, I was shut down and told to keep it safe to the brand. So much for "shaking it up". There was even an instance where they pointed me to a repository of "approved brand safe assets" to follow for examples of what to do. And a video I had done previously was in that repository. Telling me I'm not staying on brand, when my own video was in the approved branding assets is... a choice to say. The management was poor, and didn't know anything about the creative process. They would just keep regurgitating ambiguous and irrelevant numbers to me about the number of videos we "need to put out each week". Quantity over quality was the name of the game, and there was no room for creativity or thinking outside the box because of it. As well, I was somehow expected to fulfil expectations related market analytics and a number of other things I had never trained for. What you see in the title was my actual role - videographer. Yet, I was asked to put an in depth analytics report together on video in social media and across the internet. I was asked to shoot high end photography at a trade show. I was given a $15,000 budget for camera equipment (that I successfully made a professional 2 camera setup of), then asked why I said we would need crew and location to shoot a large production with it. The management here was so oblivious to knowing anything about the creative process, it was virtually impossible to work with them to make any progress. Lastly, the management was also very belittling towards myself and my colleagues. Often, we would be left speechless by condescending statements on unfinished work or communication. I can confirm that I was not the only one blindsided by this rhetoric. Marketing management treated us poorly, and we had no recourse for it. I was even gaslighted by my manager that I said I would be at their trade show a day earlier than when I arrived. I had never said that, and I had multiple recorded conversations on video and in text with every colleague on the exact day I said I would be there. She conveniently heard what she wanted to hear, and tried to gaslight me into thinking that. I didn't think it was possible to micromanage and mismanage a company at the same time, but then I worked at Forcepoint, and they pulled it off no problem.
