Pros
- great work environment. - great upper leadership. - CEO willing to work with even the production crew, not afraid to lead by example. Sentiment shared by most of staff. - transferable work experience. - excellent networking opportunities. You work with the regions leaders. - teaches a lot about business from lowest to highest levels. - Cohesive environment. - Good pay - long lasting friendships. - supportive staff and leadership; generally builds young men and women into future leaders and effective team members. They embolden their workers with the same values as some of the best coaches in sports. - Builds world class events for world class people. - Unparalleled customer service, unparalleled quality. - Does more for the local economy than any other industry/firm outside of the Department of Defense. - Lack of a mob mentality; true meritocracy. - hard working departments. Every department works beyond exhaustion to deliver the end of their bargain. - put young workers in positions of leadership and welcome feedback, so long it is professional. - FUN. WORK HARD PLAY HARD. Once events are completed it is like one giant party. Working the events itself feels like a big party, and the work is intriguing. Where else will you have life music and free food offered to you during long days? - rewarding - casual - you will get in great physical shape.
Cons
- Irregular hours, difficult to manage. Many weeks go by where your work day beings at 6 AM and does not end until 3 AM the following morning; and you are required to rise at 7 or 8 the next day to crank out another 21 hour day.. followed by an 18 hour day.. followed by a sixteen hour day. Weeks will go by where the only amount of sleep you get is a few hours a night in the office or the cave as you exhaust yourself on little food an water. However, this is the nature of the event industry and you are likely to find this elsewhere. If not, well it is because other companies are not as effective as Festevents. - Overtime is reserved for full-time staff (you make so much money even in part time that it is not really necessary). - While almost all of the upper management is incredible, there have been cases of Middle/Lower managers making pretty deceitful decisions/statements which caused aspiring and undeserving workers and managers to be fired. However, in the past two years, these managers have been identified, fired, and replaced with excellent and inspiring leaders. Issue resolved. - In my years there (2012-2015) there was one upper manager who was toxic and enjoyed undermining every possible person, plan and event for the sake of arguing. My teams had never dealt with such a difficult person before, and I personally have not ever since. Just refused to cooperate with anyone and would pretend like he/she did not know you despite working under him/her for years, and felt like every subordinate was a personal servant. This person has since left the company and replaced by one of the best managers. - Interns regularly make mistakes that the production and development crews are almost always responsible to fix. Probably not different than most other jobs. - Dangerous work if you are in production or in anyway under operations. Heavy materials, machinery, heights, extreme weather conditions. Exercise caution, stay in shape, and stretch regularly.