Worst place I have ever worked. I'm amazed this place is still open.
Pros
Fun work environment and freedom to be yourself. Cool looking workspace. Dogs in the office. Awesome and supportive HR team. Frequent parties and social events. OK but expensive benefits. That's about it.
Cons
Jesus, where do I begin? Electing to work for this company is like electing to bring the tale of Sisyphus to real life. Your real life. It's a disaster. The office allows dogs, but they pee everywhere, so the place smells a little bit like a toilet. 95% of the people here are good and they do care, but in the same token, there are horribly toxic, clueless and inept people at this company who don't listen, have been there for years and have made serious mistakes that have impacted the company in negative ways...but they still work there. In some cases, they've even been promoted to head departments because they're "legacy employees." Also, fair warning: some of the employees in this company volunteer/share WAY too much about themselves, information that is unprofessional and far beyond appropriate for an office environment. Word to the wise: Your habits and your lifestyle outside of the office are nobody's business. The pay structure is odd and unsustainable. Employees get paid 24 times each year rather than on a bi-weekly schedule, which means that approximately 4x per year, you get paid every three weeks. That's a difficult to work with if you're on the lower rungs of the company and are still working to scrape together the half cents they paid you two weeks before. Pay here is about half of what most creative vendors or agencies give. 98 percent of the companies out there handle things like remote work days, time off, etc between managers and employees. Brella fits into that 2 percent of companies where everything has to be documented and exhaustively run past HR and the CEOs before it can become a real thing. Want to leave 20 minutes early to pick your spouse up from the airport? You'll have to request PTO for that. Want to work remote one day each week so you can pick up your child from school? You have to submit a formal request with your internet provider information to do that, and you need to let HR/CEOs know *EXACTLY* where you will be while you're working remote. Want to take on a side hustle while you're working for Brella? You have to apply for permission from HR/Upper Level management in order to do that, too. Frankly, this is a lot more than any adult human--especially an adult human who works for a creative company in this day and age--should have to deal with. Top-down communication is also awful here. Lots of tail chasing and constantly shifting sands, which makes it difficult to add any value or make any progress. The CEOs are also not very well versed in the markets they target because this is the only company they've worked for. They ask to review things but never review them, which sucks for you if you're the kind of person who likes getting things done and seeing the fruits of your labor. Did I mention this place is also horrifically inefficient? In every department, small projects that would normally take a day in most companies go through about 97 revisions from management because the higher level management doesn't trust any of their employees to do their jobs, even though some of these employees hail from Fortune 100 companies and have gravitas behind their names. Also, fair warning: they only have one large client that gives them about 95% of their revenue share, which means that everyone's job is constantly on the line. But heh, that's the Brella way.
