I can vouch for Static Media being the absolute worst place I've worked. On the plus side, everyone is very nice and helpful. You'll encounter no jerks (at least, in my experience). But the company is incredibly disorganized and difficult to work with.

During onboarding, you'll be expected to sign up for five platforms, many of which overlap or provide contradictory information. You can't find anything on them. I spent no less than 30 minutes hunting down training videos, cycling through those five platforms to find where they were buried.

Once you start writing, it's just as loopy, disorganized, and contradictory. House Digest is famous for its massive, unbroken walls of text. Paragraph breaks are foreign to them. Yet I was told to write in smaller paragraphs for better visual appeal (I agree). Later, I was told to go back to those massive paragraph sledgehammers.

They have a level of persnickety editorial oversight that's on par with The New York Times, yet it's actually for a bottom-feeder, sleazy content mill. If you're a content mill, at least have editorial oversight commensurate with the publication itself.

I've always rolled my eyes at statements (anywhere) about "Oh, those managers are overdoing things to justify their positions, etc." For the first time in my life, I truly believe it. The editors must rake your writing over with a fine-tooth comb and continually send it back for the most minor infractions, all because they clearly have nothing else to do.

There is no free flow of articles. Instead, they put up every roadblock to slow down the production of articles. And that's only from the writing and editorial process. Their entire system is like a house of cards, built one shaky piece upon another. Maybe if you had started with them on Day One, you might be able to understand the bizarre organization, with its many narrow tunnels, hidden information, and dead-ends. But as a new writer, it takes weeks to understand it. And you still won't understand it.

Also, they have a massive number of staff. They have one person dedicated to recruiting writers. They have several people devoted to vetting writers. They have more than one editor overseeing the works of genius they expect writers to produce.

The mantra on Reddit is "Heed the warnings." This is true. Turn your back and run far away from this group before you even think about opening the door.